-Or 80% dog?
-Or 50% banana?
Actual reality may be a little more complex than high-school biology lead you to believe.
Check out the vid to see a few of the faults in the original theory…
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Video: ASAPScience Asks, Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence?
And as a great companion video to the Vsauce post, ASAPScience asks if we can improve not our Strength or Speed, but our Intelligence through genetic means, and what people are already doing about it.
The core of their idea is based on The Cognitive Genomics Project, Big Data & Gene Therapy…
Video: The Ultimate Self-Improvement Question: Can You Genetically Enhance Yourself?
In this video, VSauce gets into the DNA-Techy meat of the most serious self-improvement question imaginable:
Forget the Deepak Chopra Aisle at the Barnes & Noble, -Can we make ourselves better or even Superhuman by using genetic alterations like in the game BioShock?
Well, the Michael Stevens-less host Jake Roper goes on with a little help from ASAPScience to ask those questions and find the supporting research on things like Speed, Strength and Smarts.
Typical Vsauce kookiness, and Worth a watch…
Welcome To The Future Of Cure: The Human Epigenome Has Been Decoded
15 years ago, the human DNA code was sequenced by groups led by Craig Venter and Francis Collins.
Well now we have another first. In a set of more than 20 published papers, the human Epi-Genome has now been decoded for at least 120+ different types of tissue.
Why is this important?
It turns out that the genetics of every sickness you could get or not, and every type of tissue your body could make or function…
Read More >Harvard Docs Use FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS To Repair Holes In Teeth!
Ever see those LED brushes on late-night TV that say they’ll grow your hair back? -Well, it turns out they work; -or at least the theory anyway.
Results were spotty, and the principles weren’t well-understood; -until now.
Using low-powered lasers, some creative dentistry & great analysis, a Harvard team has figured out how to regenerate the bony-core of teeth in 12 weeks, using only light.
(not as impressive as growing a whole new tooth, but anyway)…
Drug-Resistant-Superbug Antibiotic Invented With Help Of Sweet Hack
Using historical procedures coupled with some clever architecture tricks, two Northeastern U. scientists have created at least the beginnings of 1 new antibiotic, 25 other candidates, and maybe even a whole new Class of them.
(funny how strangely-similar their process was to what those Hygeine Hypothesis guys advised)…
Alchemy! Researchers Generate Functional Thyroid-Cells From Stem-Cells
In the future, thyroid medication and the problems that necessitated it, may be a thing of the past.
Thanks to some groundbreaking work by Sabine Costagliola at the Free University of Brussels, our old friend the Stem Cell has slain yet another dragon.
What Sabine’s team did was to get stem-cells to produce 2 compounds only found in the thyroid.
They then grew these special cells in petri-dishes,…
Fill Out This Form, Plato. -Or Project Baseline Wants To Find Truth, Beauty In The Ideal DNA Paradigm
So clearly, The Goog is just jealous of code genius, Brittany Wenger’s Neural Networks.
And to that end, they are creating another “Moonshot” project out of their X-Division, similar to “Calico”
This one is set to be something like the Charles Darwin of the human genome. -But to an end.
Maybe one day, there will be a more blown-out version of NatGeo’s Geno 2.0 targeted at health, but right now Google wants to map the paradigm of the ideal healthy person’s genome in a project they’re calling “Baseline”…
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