Sentences with phrase «biological time machine»

Using now - standard techniques, they put those cells through a biological time machine, returning them to an embryo - like stem cell state.

If so, that DNA would serve as a biological time machine that effectively allows scientists to revisit Earth's past and watch as proteins and species evolve.

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«Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,» said Musk according to a CNBC report, adding that «some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem.»

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

This complex biological machine gathers the chromosomes together and sorts them at the time of cell division, then sends them to the opposite poles of the daughter cells in a process called chromosome segregation.

As stated in the paper, «Biological machines consisting of cells and biomaterials have the potential to dynamically sense, process, respond, and adapt to environmental signals in real time.»

Sure, our bodies are amazing, adaptable biological machines, but why should we take advantage of that all the time?

Lucy Austin Exhibition: «Surface disturbances - evidence of biological time - part 1» 11th December - 22nd January 2013 Tender Machines (2012) is a new series of characterful «personages» derived from different machines each with various purposes and prMachines (2012) is a new series of characterful «personages» derived from different machines each with various purposes and prmachines each with various purposes and processes.

I also found that I was at odds with the thrust of the profession at the time, which was highly scientific medicine: the physician as technician and the patient as biological machine that was broken.