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Health beyond the carbon barrier

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019
Silicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views
Abou Farman
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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G‐Quadruplexes: Structural Diversity and Emerging Roles in Biomolecular Condensation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
G‐quadruplexes (G4s) fold into diverse intra‐ and intermolecular structures, positioning them as emerging regulators of biomolecular condensation. Mechanistically, G4s autonomously form condensates, act as structural platforms to initiate and stimulate condensation, or induce phase transitions.
Wenmeng Wang, Qingqing Xu, Yuxin Zhang, Fang Liu, Guangchao Sui, Dangdang Li   +5 more
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The Immortality of the Soul in the First Half of Phaedo

Plato
In the Phaedo, Plato presents a dual conception of the soul’s fate “ one for the philosophers, whose purified souls ascend toward the Forms (80e-81a, 82c-84b, 114c-115a), and one for non-philosophers, whose impure souls remain trapped in the cycle of ...
Minxing Huang
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Rethinking Death’s Sacredness: From Heraclitus’s frag. DK B62 to Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds

Open Theology, 2022
This article examines death’s symbolic role vis-à-vis life in cross-cultural perspective. It surveys various ways of suppressing, nuancing, or minimising death’s effects and different ways of assuming its non-impasse through a cross-disciplinary lens ...
Segovia Carlos A.
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AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
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Using Synthetic Glycans to Investigate Anti‐Glycan Antibodies and Explore Their Medical Potential

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Anti‐glycan antibodies are essential in health and disease. Access to novel glycan structures paves the way for progress in antibody profiling for biomarker discovery, antibody development, and vaccine design. We summarize the strategies to synthesize and utilize synthetic glycans for the development and application of anti‐glycan antibodies in basic ...
Fabienne Weber, Aina Valenti, Jiří Ledvinka, Oren Moscovitz, Peter H. Seeberger   +4 more
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“Little” Immortality: Immortological Theme in the Internet Microformats

Corpus Mundi
This article correlates in content with the previous article in the journal. Internet microformats (short stories, gifs, pics, memes, demotivators, etc.) have a short life compared to “monumental” content, but are characterized by a high speed of ...
Artur A. Dydrov, Milena S. Vizgina
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Живое универсальное разумное существо, остоящее из сознания и тела-трансформера [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2012
The problem of the survival and development of Homo sapiens put the need for a radical extension of human life on the agenda in the XXI century. Among the many possible scenarios, there is extreme radical scenario of human transformation and the creation
Кричевский С. В.
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Increased Risk of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Exposed to Azathioprine

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate the risk of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) in azathioprine (AZA)–exposed versus unexposed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) pregnancies within the multicenter prospective Lupus in Pregnancy (LEGACY) cohort. Methods LEGACY is conducted at Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics in Canada, South Korea, Peru,
Reem Farhat, Maria del Carmen Zamora‐Medina, Sang‐Cheol Bae, Megan R. W. Barber, Ann E. Clarke, Paul R. Fortin, Zahi Touma, Carl A. Laskin, Isabelle Malhamé, Giada Sebastiani, Christine Peschken, Manuel F. Ugarte‐Gil, Alexandra Legge, Sasha Bernatsky, Évelyne Vinet   +14 more
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