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Vertical Farming: The Farm Comes To Town
Inside representation of a vertical farm The Bible features Jesus feeding a hungry crowd of five thousand with only two fish and five loaves of bread. A professor of environmental sciences and...
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Regenerative Medicine: A Peek into the Future
Regenerative medicine is a growing field that offers the potential to repair and replace damaged cells, tissues, and organs by using those that are specially grown. Thus, instead of merely providing...
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Predicting Disease: How Technology in the Future Might Change Healthcare
What if disease could be predicted before it happened? No, this is not a fictional health-care version of Minority Report, but a possible end science is quickly developing towards. What began as an...
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Transdifferentiation－Exploring Biological Alchemy
How to turn lead into gold may still remain a mystery, but the discovery of what is equivalent to alchemy at a cellular level opens up a new range of possibilities. Contrary to previous belief that...
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Nanotechnology: Applications in Medicine
Imagine going to the doctor’s office for a vaccine. Instead of injecting a syringe full of clear liquid, the syringe appears to have nothing. In reality, the syringe contains thousands of contraptions...
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Synthetic Biology: Benefits, Risks, and Regulations
Our species has grown increasingly adept at harnessing the natural world for our benefit; however, for the past few decades, genetic engineers have only been able to manipulate genes. While engineers...
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Novel Artistic Expression Through Biotechnology
“Bio art” is a term coined in 1997 by Eduardo Kac, one of its earliest artists and pioneers. He used the term to describe Time Capsule, a performance piece where Kac surgically inserted a tracking...
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The Man-Machine Interface
Of all types of diseases and injuries, complications due to nerve damage tend to be the most terrifying. While we have potential ways to overcome cancer or heart disease, medicine is helpless in the...
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Nanotechnology in Medicine and Public Health
Microscopic robotic surgeries, artificial skeletons and muscles, noninvasive imaging devices; the promises of nanotechnology are seemingly endless. But what exactly is this emerging field, and how can...
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Life As We Know It
We currently live in a society that holds prevalent the ideas if something is broken, it can be fixed, if something is imperfect, it can be thrown away and started over, and if something is unwanted,...
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Hope for the Blind – First Bionic Eye Implants in the United States
Driven by the concept of Moore’s law, which predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years, the miniaturization of integrated circuit components...
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Graphene: The Next Leap in Technological Advancements
Imagine a full-grown elephant balanced on the end of a pencil. Now imagine that pencil tip perpendicular to a layer of substance as thin as plastic wrap, which miraculously prevents the pencil tip from...
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Exploring Emergent Technology: Memory Augmentation Implants
What is a memory augmentation implant? Memory augmentation implants, currently in the early stages of research and development, are a type of neural prosthesis: a technological extension of the nervous...
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