Welcome to Melanie Swan's Biology Futures wiki!

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This project weaves together the different threads of current and evolving biological technologies.

Final Presentation

Technology Areas

Synthetic biology

Open-source biology

Neuroengineering

Nanomedicine and Telemedicine

• http://unithertechnologyconference.com/conferenceagenda.php

Longevity

• Pete Estep, InnerSpace Foundation, http://www.longenity.com/
• Aubrey de Grey, SENS, Methuselah Foundation

Experimental Biology

• http://www.eb2008.org/

Personalized genomic services

Brain fitness

Brain marketing (fMRI)

• http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/04/follow_the_neur.php

Dimensions

Ethics/Law

Pedagogy

• HBR IdeaCast  (44 or 61) - 78% health sciences graduate degrees being awarded to women
• Carlos Sequin - UC's smartest admits going into bioinformatics not computer science since 2003
• Pink(?) EconTalk - high % college majors self-determined

Politics

Economic

Social

Environmental