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more about #biotech Hypnosifl: they could create blood cells by layering hemoglobin and other proteins on top of a microscopic, donut-shaped polymer mold So will this technique all... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: This research has been going on for a decade or more. the biggest customer for synthetic blood is the military - it's invaluable on the battlefield. more » Smeagol92055: Ha ha, fuck you, Daybreakers. Your whole movie has just been rendered moot. SCIENCE TRIUMPHS OVER VAMPIRES YET AGAIN more » Brian Fowler: Finally, Tru Blood! Only a few more years until Iahhh... my friends that is, "can come out of the coffin", as it were. more » FrankenPC: I've got a crazy idea...some insane company creates a genetically modified corn. Then that corn spreads everywhere and, consequently, anyone who has ... more » Klebert L. Hall: I always thought the red weed in War of the Worlds was one of the better, creepier features. -Kle. more » Makidian: I got Queen City Jazz from a garage sale when I was 12 or so, I love the shit out of that book and possibly moreso becuse it is set in Cincy so it was... more » Matt Morava: I thought "The Last of The O-Forms" by James Van Pelt was a good start to the kind of apocalypse that would be terrifying... just no people left who w... more » Jurandr: Try reading the book "Hot Zone." I can honestly say that while I read that book I hardly slept at all. It's real and it's scary. more » SpammerOvTheGods: 2 words: Darwin's Radio #@! more » Bismod: Curse this article, this was going to be my niche in movie-making! more » DasStan: That's change I can believe in. more » tamoko: Ribofunk, by Paul Di Filippo... not exactly a biotech apocalypse, but it's got some concepts that I still can't get out of my head, years after readin... more » Memepunks: I'd love to watch a movie or TV series that featured completely organic technologies. Think the Yuuzhan Vong from Star Wars expanded universe, the Ty... more » Strakus: I'll take that one better- how bout a film where biotech *saves* the day- like it might, say, in the real world. more » spocko: I read a fun story about a bacteria that eats oil and all of the long chain molecules. It is first used on an oil spill then mutates into airborn form... more » Vulcan Has No Moon: I would like to order a stampeding herd of carnivorous, genetically engineered cows with a side of man-eating, Seymour-type killer plants. Medium wel... more » Roklimber: Disappointing as it was, the made-for-TV remake of The Andromeda Strain had an interesting idea along the lines that you're referring to. Not quite as... more » DraconisXC: I agree, it would be pretty awesome to see something like this. I don't believe, however, that a world in which there is a seamless fusion of biology... more » Monsieur.Mind: Greg Bear's Blood Music FTW. Sentient blood cells and how the world subsequently changes. Terrifying and uplifting. more » -
#madscience
We Can Replace Your Blood Cells With Synthetics
A few years from now, your blood transfusion may contain synthetic blood cells (pictured) almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Except in one important way: These synth-cells can be stuffed with drugs for special delivery via your circulatory system. More » -
#stealthispitch
Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
So Hollywood trashed the world in 2012, and scourged it in The Road. But neither apocalypse delivered the sweet tang of satisfaction. That's because what the Earth needs now are life-distorting biotech mutation stories. Here's why.
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#madmedicine
Biotech Company Sued for Accidentally Growing Extra Bones In People's Bodies
A company called Stryker Biotech was in court last week defending a bone-growth product it sold for years, despite reports that it would "drift" in the body, causing bones to grow in random locations. More » -
#madmedicine
Handheld Device Electrifies Your Breast Tissue, Diagnoses Cancer Risk
Soon, you could be determining your breast cancer risk with a simple needle jab, to collect a small amount of tissue — which doctors would electrify and subject to weird chemicals, before extracting the estrogen for analysis. More » -
#nanotech
Nanotech And Lasers Team Up To Cure Cancer
When nanotech and lasers team up, is there anything they can't do? Apparently not. New research shows a combined nanotube/laser treatment zaps kidney tumors in 80 percent of mice. Nanotech is teaming up with viruses to kill ovarian tumors, too. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Biologists Rarely Understand How Their Work Is Being Weaponized
Bioethicist Malcolm Dando has published a disturbing and well-researched editorial in this week's Nature magazine, about how biological research is being weaponized - and how poorly biologists understand the military implications of their work. Here's what he has to say. More » -
#madscience
Batteries That Feed on Blood
Yesterday researchers at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver announced that they'd created a tiny battery (pictured) that could draw power from human blood. They're basically cyborg batteries, half biological and half technological. More » -
#photography
Nanofarm Your Body for Fun and Profit
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 way humans treat and relate to their bodies. After all, if we can sell our organs, gametes, and hair, what's to stop us from growing extra ones all over our bodies? More » -
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#scifashion
Wearing and Drinking Fluorescent Protein
This masked reveler at last year's Bio Taiwan Exhibition was enjoying two kinds of fluorescent protein: one on her lips, and one in her drink. At last, synthetic biology that isn't designed to improve the human condition, cure disease, or revolutionize anything. Nope, it's just there to look cool. Want to see an even cooler — and more expensive — form of facial adornment from the Bio Taiwan Exhibition? More »
