The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature

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It will even cater to the visually impaired when we find suitable biocompatible materials,” says Fan. During the study, one participant was withdrawn after becoming pregnant and another after opting for bariatric surgery.

Choreographic composition thus necessarily includes bodily and spatial relations, temporality, and the world of affects.While our liver has the most extensive regenerative capacity of all our organs, when it is diseased or injured to such an extent that it’s unable to repair itself, patients quickly run out of options. In 2020, a pig named Gertrude received a brain-monitoring chip that enabled scientists to wirelessly monitor the animal’s brain activity.

We’ve developed a new cooking recipe for generating human skin that produces hair follicles after about 70 days in culture,” says Koehler. We relayed at the outset that the radical transformation of Duncan’s dancing technique, as well as its “content” and purpose, was inspired in particular by the Russian Revolution of 1917.

A total of 145 participants, slightly fewer than the target number, were recruited over 8 months from November 2013 to August 2014, when the recruitment phase period concluded. Other artificial hearts on the market, like the one made by SynCardia, have a fixed heart rate, instead of one that adjusts to the patient’s activity levels. Within FUTUREBODY, ITAS is responsible for the overall coordination and for a sub-project on ethical and legal aspects in which ITAS also closely works with Enno Park (Berlin), Romy Rasper (Munich) and Vera Borrmann (Vienna). All this fascinating if sometimes sensational information does serve a purpose, of course - to illuminate the author's "central observations and proposals," e.