Medicine, Longevity and More

A Bionic Man (of sorts)

Printing human embryonic stem cells

Solid State SequencerSolid state gene sequencing machine

Can determine structural sequences of long stretches of DNA

Cheaper and faster sequences

Oncology particularly could benefit

Nanopore technology is a possible competitor

Sequence entire genome from single cell

Multiple Annealing and Looping-based Amplification Cycles (MALBAC) Just one cell to reproduce entire DNA molecule

Can find a single base pair mutation in the entire genome with 70% accuracy

Duplicates the DNA molecule for study

Amplification is smooth over the genomeLinear rather than exponential amplification

New Method of Genetic Editing

Printing an Ear

Reversing Alzheimer’sNew compound, molecule TFP5

Reverses symptoms and memory loss

Up for clinical trials

Non-toxic

Lab rats get sixth senseAllows rats to see or rather “touch” infrared light

Infrared detector implanted in tactile processing brain area

Blind could see by similar device implantation in other areas of brain.

Cross sense interpretation

No loss of normal sense function

Synthetic biology circuit combines memory, logic

Graphene Liquid Gate Revolutionizing Neural

Implants

Breakthrough Prize in Life Extension

Brin, Zukcerberg, Anne Wojcicki (23and Me)

Rewards for curing diseases

Rewards for life extension

Each year 11 laureates will receive $3 million each