Posts Tagged Life
Splicing Life?: The New Genetics and Society
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Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding t… More >>
Splicing Life?: The New Genetics and Society
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Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art
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Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book fascinating responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific and technological advances. In the last two decades a growing number of artists has left the traditional artistic playground to work instead in scientific contexts such as the laboratories of molecular biology, robotics, and artificial life. New art forms like “Transgeni… More >>
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Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
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With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle to the ancient goal of conquering most major diseases. Nicholas Wade has covered the sequencing of the genome, as well as other health and science stories, for The … More >>
Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
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