The concept of Actuarial escape velocity, invented by futurist and author Ray Kurzweil, posits that developments in life extension technology will reach a point at which the technology keeps pace with or even outpaces the rate at which humans age. This represents a kind of gateway to immortality...
The Ethics of Ageing, Immortality and Genetics overpopulationright to lifeageismapologismprolongevitismjusticeThe questions we address are the following: Are we entitled to access life extension therapies? D Cutas,J Harris - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 被引量: 4发表: 2007年 The 1990s: the decade...
One Hundred Fifty Years After KierkegaardCharles Tandy, Ph.D., EditorVolume Three ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-6-4Volume Three ISBN-10: 0-9743472-6-4Distributed By IngramIncludes: "Recent Developments In The Ethics, Science, And Politics Of Life-Extension" by Nick Bostrom"The Illusiveness Of Immo...
The biosphere represents the global sum of all ecosystems. According to a prominent view in environmental ethics, ecocentrism, these ecosystems matter for
The combined influence of life-history strategy and resource dispersion on dispersal evolution of a biological community, and by extension, on community assemblage, has received sparse attention. Highly specialized fig wasp communities are ideal for addr
This workshop focused on the extension of the current CL and CLO to cover a wider set of biological questions and challenges needing semantic infrastructure for information modeling. We discussed data-driven use cases that leverage linkage of CL, CLO and other bio-ontologies. This is an ...
(INSERM) for the Mode-K cell line. J.A. is the Nestlé Chair in Energy Metabolism. Work in the Auwerx laboratory is supported by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Systems X (SysX.ch 2013/153), and was co-financed by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) (...
Industrial chemical production from renewable feedstocks by microbial cell factories provides a promising avenue towards sustainability. However, the small size of bacterial cells and environmental stress significantly affect microbial cell factory perfo
The proteasome in eukaryotic cells can degrade a variety of proteins and plays an important role in regulating the cell cycle, cell survival and apoptosis. The proteasome receives much attention as a potential chemotherapeutic target for treatment of a v
Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century This collection of essays builds on the contributions of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of "Reverence for Life" as it pertains to our world today.Albert ...