Broader Perspective

How do you know that your mindfile will not be deleted, either on purpose or by accident? What would you do if your mindfile is stored in me...

With one key life sciences focus shifting to health as opposed to healthcare (as HealthCamp founder Mark Scrimshire exhorts) and to prev...

Genomics is making faster progress than any other technology in recent history. Usually the vista from any point on an exponential curve loo...

That aging is understandable and solvable, not necessarily immediately but ultimately, was one topic not seeing a lot of opposition at the A...

One of the great human endeavors at the moment is being able to work at the molecular scale (e.g.; 1-100 nm), using organic and inorganic ma...

As we push to extend inorganic Moore’s Law computing to ever-smaller nodes, and simultaneously attempt to understand and manipulate existing...

Synthetic biology is the engineering of biology, re-designing existing biological systems and designing new ones, for a myriad of purposes....

The Canary Foundation ’s annual symposium held May 4-6, 2009 indicated progress in two dimensions of a systemic approach to cancer detectio...

The April 20-24, 2009 Foundations of Nanoscience conference at Snowbird UT provided an interesting look at the wide variety of subfields an...

Thinking really long term, what would it be like if all matter, including life, could be designed and built to specification with nanotechno...