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Nanofarm Your Body for Fun and Profit [Photography]io9 - Oct 22, 2008 If you've ever thought that selling your kidney, ova, or sperm sounded like a handy way to make some cash, it's time to consider body farming. Michael Burton's photographs show how advances in biotech will change the … Also tagged: art, photography, nanotech, human, farming, michael burton |
io9 - Jul 17, 2008
Researchers have figured out a way to modify the deadly food poison Salmonella, a bacteria, and turn it into a vaccine delivery system. Don't worry — this won't become an "I Am Legend" situation. All the bad parts of …
io9 - Jul 14, 2008
Korean researchers are developing an edible vaccine for Alzheimers that is carried in genetically-engineered tomatoes. As long as you eat the tomatoes raw, the vaccine should work (heating destroys it). [The Biotech …
Also tagged: science
io9 - Jun 11, 2008
If you have a pet dog or cat, chances are your furry pal has an embedded microchip that allows animal shelters to find out who the owner is in the event of an escape or pet-napping. Imagine if that same chip could tell …
Also tagged: science, mit, cyborgs, usda, foo fighters, lost pets, cyborg cows, mad agriculture
io9 - Jun 5, 2008
Next-gen cyborgs will have human blood flowing through artificial veins (pictured), and their organs will be grown in a lab to act just like real organs, only better, stronger, faster. We have the technology. The next …
Also tagged: science, cyborgs, we have the technology, artificial organs
io9 - Mar 14, 2008
Blade II has got to be one of the best movies ever, not the least because director Guillermo "Hellboy" Del Toro goes where no genre bender ever has before. He manges to combine the biotech science fiction flick with …
Also tagged: movies, science, horror, biology, guillermo del toro, found footage, blade ii
io9 - Mar 7, 2008
If you've been wanting to see the John Woo produced cyborg war romance Appleseed: Ex Machina on the big screen, and you happen to live in New York, then this is your lucky day. We're giving away five pairs of tickets …
Also tagged: contest, new york, movie, cyborgs, anime, japanese, giveaway, appleseed