Health on your plate!

FReSH (initials standing for Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) is a benevolent initiative of the “World Business Council” to restructure the world’s food system; and to make companies adapt to it… It was created in 2017 – and its members confer regularly… There are many things that interest the bosses of food, drugs, communications… Keep the name of one of them: proteins. (If you remember that the “lifesaving” genetic engineering therapies that have become fashionable these days involve the production of proteins, it must be a simple coincidence…) Do you understand that? Every radical capitalist restructuring requires a good …

Eternal youth (superficial first)…

A South Korean cosmetics company called Amorepacific, in collaboration with a team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is preparing to support and commercialize the latter’s finding to inhibit skin cell aging. KAIST biotechnologists claim that with a combination of chemical and genetic intervention in the cells, they have found a way to “block” a molecule that enables their aging. They are excited. “…our research opens the door for a new generation that perceives aging as a reversible biological phenomenon…” stated Professor Cho. Indeed, “eternal childhood” (even infancy…) has commercially proven to be a very dynamic …

Ηave faith and doubt not

Deception is part of the job; especially when the “job” is to impose massive techno-scientific applications that, at best, would be considered dangerous. Therefore, there is a surplus of kibitzers of genetic engineering companies, who use their “charm” to convince that mRNA platforms do not interfere in human DNA, so they are harmless. On February 4, 2020 (when covid 19 was still a “Chinese problem”…) one could read in the well-known nature journal, under the title Step aside CRISPR, RNA editing is taking off, some interesting things about the “take-off” of mRNA technology, which is well qualified to outperform CRISPR …

Bioprinting

Every 1 to 2 seconds, somewhere on the planet, a diabetic will get an ulcer somewhere on the tip of his or her feet. Half of these ulcers become infected within three days at most. Infection eats the flesh. Gangrene… Equally effective is the medical treatment of such conditions: amputation. It is estimated that a mutilation of this kind occurs every minute – all over the planet. So the invention of the South Korean medicine startup ROKIT Healthcare is really radical. The wound is first scanned, which can be done remotely. Then liposuction must be done from a healthy part …

“Biometrics”

When one “locks and unlocks” one’s mobile phone with one’s finger feels safe… isn’t that right? That if it is lost or stolen it will not be able to be unlocked… The same applies if the same job is done with “facial recognition” – via camera. Or “voice recognition”… It’s easier, faster and more playful – compared to, say, having to enter a password… Very well. Do all these happy customers know what biometrics is? And what does it aim at? Typically “biometrics” is any measurement and any calculation that regards the human body. Once upon a time, height, eye …