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smarterplanet:

DARPA Launches Program to Industrialize Genetic Engineering

DARPA has launched a program called called “Living Foundries,”designed to apply the conventions of manufacturing to living cells, Wired Danger Room reports.

DARPA has awarded seven research grants worth $15.5 million to six different companies and institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, Cal Tech, and the J. Craig Venter Institute. “Living Foundries” aspires to streamline genetic engineering for “on-demand production” of whatever bio-product suits the military’s immediate needs, starting with a library of “modular genetic parts.”

The agency wants researchers to come up with a set of “parts, regulators, devices and circuits” that can reliably yield various genetic systems. After that, they’ll also need “test platforms” to quickly evaluate new bio-materials to “compress the biological design-build-test cycle by at least 10X in both time and cost,” while also “increasing the complexity of systems that can be designed and executed.”

What could possibly go wrong?

(via DARPA, Venter launch assembly line for genetic engineering | KurzweilAI)

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cor7ana:

angel-of-omega:

tree-running:

iggymarauder:

gdfalksen:

Cyberpunk Eyes 

University of Washington researchers have figured out how to implant semitransparent red and blue LED lights in contact lenses, for the purpose of receiving and displaying data in sharp visual images and video. This means wearers will literally be able to watch TV or view photos that are projected directly onto their eyeballs.

SCREECHING

THE FUTURE IS HERE YOU GUYS

Imagine watching a horror movie, you can’t close your eyes… NOPE!

[Still seeing the horror movie?

I never wanted this.]

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scallawag:

ACTORS DONT GET PROPS THEY BREAK THEM

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criminalwisdom:

Image: Embroidery by Dawn Rogal (Via)

Or if shes straddling your torso and arms and she proposes her dominance by placing hands at the top of the head and your bottom chin as if it were her duty to kill you, you only have 4 semi bound extremities and your eyes/face to use to persuade her otherwise

neurolove:

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Someone asked me to give more information about PTSD, so I thought I would do a couple posts about it.  After depression and substance abuse, PTSD is one of the most prevalent mental disorders.  An estimate of 70% of people in the US are exposed to a traumatic event in their lifetime (car accident, combat, physical/sexual assault), but only about 14-24% of these people will develop PTSD.  It has slightly higher prevalence for women (10-14%) than men (5-6%), but is much higher in soldiers than civilians.  For instance, 30% of Vietnam veterans had PTSD and almost half of prisoners of war developed PTSD in their lifetimes.

It is important to note that PTSD cannot be diagnosed until 30 days after a traumatic event, since some of the symptoms are “normal” to be seen immediately following the event.  It is their persistence that creates a problem.

The criteria for diagnosis of PTSD are:

Criterion A - Exposure to a traumatic stressor.
Criterion B - Re-experiencing symptoms.
Criterion C - Avoidance and numbing symptoms.
Criterion D - Symptoms of increased arousal (i.e. hyper-vigilance).
Criterion E - Duration of at least one month.
Criterion F - Significant distress or impairment of functioning.

In the image above taken from the NIMH site, you can see the VMPFC and amygdala are highlighted.  That is because the amygdala creates a fear response and the VMPFC is able to extinct a fear response.  In PTSD, it is thought that this system is somehow hindered and the individual is unable to extinct the fear response.

(via fuckyeahmedicalstuff)

sillsif:

Opposites they are. Yet they are still unbreakable.

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Tennesee Williams
Is
A great fucking writer
So thanks for The shoutout office

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classic-tunes:

For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield

Stop children what’s that sound everybody look whats going down

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