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Harvard Creates Cyborg Tissues
MrSeb writes "Bioengineers at Harvard University have created the first examples of cyborg tissue: Neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels that are interwoven by nanowires and transistors. These cyborg tissues are half living cells, half electronics. As far as the cells are concerned, they're just normal cells that behave normally — but the electronic side actually acts as a sensor network, allowing a computer to interface directly with the cells. In the case of cyborg heart tissue, the researchers have already used the embedded nanowires to measure the contractions (heart rate) of the cells. So far, the researchers have only used the nanoelectric scaffolds to read data from the cells — but according to lead researcher Charles Lieber, the next step is to find a way of talking to the individual cells, to 'wire up tissue and communicate with it in the same way a biological system does.' Suffice it to say, if you can use a digital computer to read and write data to your body's cells, there are some awesome applications."
"I never asked for this."
... just build cyborgs which don't need to blow their nose?
that part where Data had like 4 square inches of skin grafted on to him, and it was the greatest thing that ever happened to him
Your heart possibly being owned by a corporation. Or your willy wang and the police busting down your door for unauthorised jerking methods.
I for one welcome our new Cyborg Overlords!
I are hacked!
I just want the hardware.
The issue for all of us who already exist today is that the tissue grows around the mesh. Certainly in the future new organisms can be grown and integrated at the same time to become cybernetic life forms. However, for all of us who are already grown getting a mesh inside of our tissues presents a whole other engineering problem.
On the other, I'm thinking "kill switch"
...they're trying to take over that iPod!
Suffice it to say, if you can use a digital computer to read and write data to your body's cells, there are some awesome applications.
Turn the human body into a biological Pirate Bay.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
Suffice it to say, if you can use a digital computer to read and write data to your body's cells, there are some awesome applications."
Yes. The RIAA can now ask for someone to be disassembled to search for pirated software, and the government in order to check for terrorist cellular data. Reassembly of course, will be your problem, not theirs.
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Aren't Dr. Who's nemeses the Daleks? They're allegedly a construction of living tissue and mechanical parts.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
I was just hacked...dammit!
So, if a cyborg is built entirely in the US and is activated here, does that mean they can run for President after they have been on 40 years? And since computer/cyborg time is so much faster than human, if it is in their "years", what would that mean? That they can run for office in 3 weeks? :-)
You will be assimilated, resistance is futile!
Cool.
I wonder what the infection rate along the interfaces is?
I'll be back.
Is it too much to ask to at least let me finish my new video game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution before you start making the real crap in a lab? geesh.
"Bravery is not a function of firepower."
Not only is JC more advanced but he has better lines too.
With a little Transglutaminase and MSG added to the recipe, there could be a lucrative market for obsolete or misbehaving cyborgs, perhaps in places like Papua New Guinea, or certainly in Washington, D.C.
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
Text msg: "This is your heart. Less than 5000 beats remaining. Please add lifetime now".
the next step is to find a way of talking to the individual cells, to 'wire up tissue and communicate with it in the same way a biological system does.'
I wonder if these nanowires can be combined the patch clamp to solve this problem?
I can see the fnords!
Resistance is futile
I am just finishing Dune - The Machine Crusade. What great timing!
Ignoring all the ./'s typical cynicism: This is quite an exciting development.
If the artificial components can be kept functioning without affecting the living tissue, we will be able to help people with virtually any physical disability! A few weeks ago there was a stoly how brain signals were decoded when it came to sight, so combine that with this breakthrough we can even have people controlling the devices with their mind!
Biotech is making great strides in progress. This is a very exciting time to be alive.
sends cyborg girl to swim in the Olympics . . .
Would you say.. resistance is futile?
Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care - Government & Stealth Malware
In Response To Slashdot Article: Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms 87
How many rootkits does the US[2] use officially or unofficially?
How much of the free but proprietary software in the US spies on you?
Which software would that be?
Visit any of the top freeware sites in the US, count the number of thousands or millions of downloads of free but proprietary software, much of it works, again on a proprietary Operating System, with files stored or in transit.
How many free but proprietary programs have you downloaded and scanned entire hard drives, flash drives, and other media? Do you realize you are giving these types of proprietary programs complete access to all of your computer's files on the basis of faith alone?
If you are an atheist, the comparison is that you believe in code you cannot see to detect and contain malware on the basis of faith! So you do believe in something invisible to you, don't you?
I'm now going to touch on a subject most anti-malware, commercial or free, developers will DELETE on most of their forums or mailing lists:
APT malware infecting and remaining in BIOS, on PCI and AGP devices, in firmware, your router (many routers are forced to place backdoors in their firmware for their government) your NIC, and many other devices.
Where are the commercial or free anti-malware organizations and individual's products which hash and compare in the cloud and scan for malware for these vectors? If you post on mailing lists or forums of most anti-malware organizations about this threat, one of the following actions will apply: your post will be deleted and/or moved to a hard to find or 'deleted/junk posts' forum section, someone or a team of individuals will mock you in various forms 'tin foil hat', 'conspiracy nut', and my favorite, 'where is the proof of these infections?' One only needs to search Google for these threats and they will open your malware world view to a much larger arena of malware on devices not scanned/supported by the scanners from these freeware sites. This point assumed you're using the proprietary Microsoft Windows OS. Now, let's move on to Linux.
The rootkit scanners for Linux are few and poor. If you're lucky, you'll know how to use chkrootkit (but you can use strings and other tools for analysis) and show the strings of binaries on your installation, but the results are dependent on your capability of deciphering the output and performing further analysis with various tools or in an environment such as Remnux Linux. None of these free scanners scan the earlier mentioned areas of your PC, either! Nor do they detect many of the hundreds of trojans and rootkits easily available on popular websites and the dark/deep web.
Compromised defenders of Linux will look down their nose at you (unless they are into reverse engineering malware/bad binaries, Google for this and Linux and begin a valuable education!) and respond with a similar tone, if they don't call you a noob or point to verifying/downloading packages in a signed repo/original/secure source or checking hashes, they will jump to conspiracy type labels, ignore you, lock and/or shuffle the thread, or otherwise lead you astray from learning how to examine bad binaries. The world of Linux is funny in this way, and I've been a part of it for many years. The majority of Linux users, like the Windows users, will go out of their way to lead you and say anything other than pointing you to information readily available on detailed binary file analysis.
Don't let them get you down, the information is plenty and out there, some from some well known publishers of Linux/Unix books. Search, learn, and share the information on detecting and picking through bad binaries. But this still will not touch the void of the APT malware described above which will survive any wipe of r/w media. I'm convinced, on both *nix and Windows, these pieces of APT malware
Perhaps Jon Daly was correct, someday there might be a vagina that doubles as a Wifi hotspot.
"This human has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
Childhood memories or another 12 petabytes of live goat porn? Oh, like I even have to ask!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
MIT produces far more amazing things with incredibly less money then the DOD, let's give them a trillion dollars and I'm sure they will be able to cure all diseases in less then 6 years.
I would never have considered it, but since you've proposed the possibility, I can only speculate a possible likeness to overly close encounters with certain Secretaries of certain Provinces. However, please do not think I'd ever more than consider it beyond the most purely hypothetical. The story of Beowulf and specific attention to Grendel's younger brother is enough to thoroughly discourage me.
It has antimicrobial properties. In essence this could help fend off disease just by being there.
It is rather interesting and is worth the time to check it out.
But in real people, cells can repair themselves or be replaced. Wires and transistors, not so much.
And what do you do when then software that is at the end of the wires , is so badly written that your heart and tissues are completely bugged ? Reboot ?
And there is already a commercial youtube sci-fi series about the next step.
i would go for the non paying pirated penis....
Well, there are virus scanners and then there are VIRUS scanners.
The only thing going in my vajayjay that runs on batteries comes with a happy at the end.
Double AA or car battery? :)
That would be ... interesting.
I can imagine that malware in this industry will have a whole new meaning.
This tech is worrisome, and awesome.
It's awesome because it will help with all sorts of diseases, It's worrisome because it can be hacked.
In the future viruses will be more serious.
Imagine getting an email stating that your heart now has a new virus, please send $1000 to a numbered account or you will have a heart attack. And of course when you open the email, your heart starts pumping faster.... was it because of the virus or the possible virus.