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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The pyruvate generator, which causes activation of respiration by extra‐mitochondrial Ca2+, is also present and functional in rat brainstem mitochondria, as it is in other brain regions. This finding is confirmed by experiments with a fully reconstituted malate–aspartate shuttle (MAS).
Grazyna Debska‐Vielhaber +7 more
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THE THEOLOGICAL DEBATE OVER HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: AN EMPIRICAL CASE STUDY OF A MEDIATING ORGANIZATION
Zygon, 2020 For most theologians, theology should ultimately be used by the laity and/or the public. However, the religion and science debate has not focused on the divide between theologians and the laity.
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2017 While gene doping and other technological means of sport enhancement have become a topic of ethical debate, a major outcome from genomic research in sports is often linked to the regulation of doping.
Jaehwan Hyun
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Drosophila park mutants serve as a model for Parkinson's disease. We used this strain to investigate the connection between oxidative stress and the circadian clock mechanism. We showed that increased oxidative stress affects the physiology of pacemaker cells, disrupting their daily structural plasticity. Lack of rhythmic signaling from pacemaker cells
Kamila Zientara +3 more
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In Support of Human Enhancement [PDF]
Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology, 2008 Chan, S., Harris, J.
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Sexual dimorphism and human enhancement [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2012 Robert Sparrow argues that because of women's longer life expectancy philosophers who advocate the genetic modification of human beings to enhance welfare rather than merely supply therapy are committed to favouring the selection of only female embryos, an implication he deems sufficiently implausible to discredit their position.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Aptamers are used both therapeutically and as targeting agents in cancer treatment. We developed an aptamer‐targeted PLGA–TRAIL nanosystem that exhibited superior therapeutic efficacy in NOD/SCID breast cancer models. This nanosystem represents a novel biotechnological drug candidate for suppressing resistance development in breast cancer.
Gulen Melike Demirbolat +8 more
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Pioneering neurohackers: between egocentric human enhancement and altruistic sacrifice. [PDF]
Front Neurosci, 2023 Seyfried G, Youssef S, Schmidt M.
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Conceptual Origins of the Transhumanist Paradigm in the Alchemical Tradition
RUDN Journal of PhilosophyThis work analyzes alchemical doctrine through the lens of ideas that correlate with the theoretical constructs of transhumanism. It is shown that alchemy, a complex and contradictory cultural phenomenon that existed in various civilizations over long ...
Ekaterina N. Gnatik
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Life extension: a biomedical goal?
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2011 The potential for development of biomedical technologies capable of extending the human lifespan raises at least two kinds of question that it is important both to distinguish and to connect with one another: scientific, factual questions regarding the
G Barazzetti, M Reichlin
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