Chair et Métal - L'Humanité augmentée

MedUni Vienna has made a crucial development in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Together with his team and the research group led by Gernot Schabbauer, international partners from Australia, Germany and Sweden

10-year-old Jordan Reeves has invented her own prosthetic arm that shoots glitter that she calls “Project Unicorn.” Reeves was a participant in Superhero Cyborgs 2.0, an event where chi…

This is the history of vaccines.

L'équipe du célèbre biologiste Craig Venter a créé un organisme vivant ne comptant que 473 gènes. La limite viable pour qu'un organisme fonctionne ? Explications.

A newly created bacterium, with a synthetic genome, can metabolize nutrients and self-replicate, bringing the world a step closer to building custom artificial life.

Map of mouse visual cortex shows some striking functional connections

When rock band Queen asked us “ Who wants to live forever?” back in 1986, we interpreted it as standard lyrical rhetoric. But now, three decades and what feels like light years in technological, medical, and scientific advances later, the answer to that age-old question may have changed. And according to Ray Kurzweil, the famous American inventor who has been described as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” we’re nearing immortality. As the man responsible for the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer, and much more, Kurzweil has a knack for spotting trends and anticipating the future. And if history is any indication (and his word stays true), we may be in for a long,  long lifetime. In an episode of PBS’s News Hour last week, Kurzweil noted that death, which he describes as “a great robber of meaning, of relationships, of knowledge,” will soon be conquered. Indeed, the futurist notes, our species will soon be able to defeat disease and degeneration, and live “indefinitely.” 

En plus de s'attaquer aux mécanismes de division cellulaire, cette molécule "inédite" pourrait permettre de "couper les vivres" aux tumeurs en les empêchant d

Tandis que le sucre est soupçonné de jouer un rôle dans l’épidémie d’obésité, des chercheurs dénoncent les dangers de l’utilisation de plus en plus massive de sirop de fructose-glucose par l’industrie alimentaire. Les explications de la biologiste Anne-Françoise Burnol.

Passionnés par les robots, les Japonais rêvent encore plus de pouvoir les piloter, en atteste les célèbres séries animées "Goldorak", "Evangelion" et "Gundam". Panasonic vient de faire un pas de plus vers cette technologie en dévoilant ses projets d'exosquelettes.

Des scientifiques ont créé une bactérie de synthèse avec le plus petit génome jamais décrit pour un organisme indépendant. La bactérie JCVI-syn3.0 ne contiendrait que des gènes nécessaires

Working out is the closest thing to a wonder drug we have. Along with physical benefits, exercise can supercharge our minds.

L'immortalité a depuis longtemps obsédée les hommes. Avec les récents progrès technologiques et médicaux, certains pensent que la vie sans fin est à portée de main. Mais ces promesses d'éternelle jeunesse soulève des questions éthiques et philosophiques.

These small machines just administered drugs inside a living mouse.

Fifteen minutes with a scientist who's unlocking the secrets to better aging.

But don't try these at home. Seriously.

Have you taken much time to think about what will happen to you after death? It might be time to consider these 4 alternatives to burial.

Alzheimer’s may be the cruelest of brain diseases. Decades before the first signs of dementia strike, toxic protein clumps called amyloid plaques have been slowly, insidiously building up in the... read more

L’équipe du célèbre biologiste de synthèse Craig Venter a créé un organisme vivant ne comptant que 473 gènes. C’est le plus petit génome viable connu à ce jour.

The race to harness synthetic life is on.

The first genome took 13 years and $2.7 billion to complete. But times have changed.