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DARPA’s New Project Is Investing Millions in Brain-Machine Interface Tech
When Elon Musk and DARPA both hop aboard the cyborg hypetrain, you know brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are about to achieve the impossible. BMIs, already the stuff of science fiction, facilitate crosstalk between biological wetware with external computers, turning human users into literal cyborgs. Yet mind-controlled robotic arms [https://singularityhub.com/
Microsoft Is Building an All-In-One DNA Data Storage Device
The modern world is facing a tsunami of data [https://singularityhub.com/2018/09/30/the-rise-of-dataism-a-threat-to-freedom-or-a-scientific-revolution/] . DNA is emerging as an ultra-compact way of storing it all [https://singularityhub.com/2018/04/26/the-answer-to-the-digital-data-tsunami-is-literally-in-our-dna/] , and now researchers supported by Microsoft have created the first system that can automatically translate digital
First Human CRISPR Trial in the US Aims to Cure Inherited Blindness
Gene editing is advancing at a faster pace than most of us can keep up with. One significant recent announcement was gene editing tool CRISPR’s application to non-genetic diseases thanks to a new ability to edit single letters in RNA [https://singularityhub.com/2019/07/24/editing-rna-expands-crisprs-use-far-beyond-genetic-diseases/] . Even as
Scientists Just Released a New Playbook for Engineering Longer, Healthier Lives
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment anti-aging research morphed from quackery to an established science. Some say it’s 1939, when an experiment that restricted calories in rodents bizarrely increased their lifespan. Others argue it’s 1961, when Leonard Hayflick discovered a limit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/