I am a 25 year old space engineering student (atm in Bremen, DE), this blog is about things that I find worth sharing.
Playing God, a 2012 BBC documentary about the current state of bio engineering.
Broadcast (2012) Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending ‘biological machines’ into our brains.
When doctors in Berlin tried to cure someone from leukaemia in Berlin, they accidentally cured his HIV with the use of a Bone Marrow transplant.
Don’t cheer to fast now, this way of curing HIV is very expense and a matching donor will have to be found.
