Yearly Archives: 2012

Biomedicine – Part 8: Robots to the Rescue – Surgical and Diagnostic Robotic Systems

In earlier blogs we have looked at the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence. In this blog we'll tackle the subject from the perspective...

Biomedicine – Part 7: Life Mapping, Genomics and Unnatural Selection in the 21st Century

In the original Star Trek television episode, entitled Space Seed we are introduced to Khan Noonien Singh, a product of eugenic breeding programs on...

Biomedicine – Part 6: The Promise of Nanotechnology

What is nanotechnology? What is nanomedicine? In this blog we will look at where nano and medicine meet in the second decade of the...

Biomedicine – Part 5: One-to-One Designer Cures in the 21st Century

Stem cells have become a part of the medical lexicon in the second decade of the 21st century. Where are we now with this...

Biomedicine – Part 4: The Evolution of the Human-Machine Duopoly

Biomechanics is the biological equivalent of a human-computer duopoly. A duopoly is normally a marketing term describing a situation in which there are only...

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