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Death of controversial biohacker Aaron Traywick puts movement at ‘crossroads’
At just 28, [Aaron] Traywick was among the most infamous figures in the world of biohacking—the grandiose CEO of a ...
Is it time to discuss what we should or shouldn’t do with ‘lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue’?
Rusty Gage and colleagues at the Salk Institute [recently] announced that they had successfully transplanted lab-grown blobs of human brain tissue ...
Why your startle reflex is like an ‘exploitable data breach’
[T]he startle reflex might be an evolutionary point of origin for many of our most common human emotional expressions. When ...
Could humans be Earth’s second civilization?
“How do you know we’re the only time there’s been a civilization on our own planet?” [said Goddard Institute for ...
Biohacking can work wonders on machines, but on humans? Not so much.
We can hack our technologies, and even our societies, so why not ourselves? Alas, things are not so straightforward. While ...
