News - Is It Future Yet? : Videos. Immortality for Humans by 2045. A Russian mogul wants to achieve cybernetic immortality for humans within the next 33 years.
He's pulled together a team intent on creating fully functional holographic human avatars that house our artificial brains. Now he's asking billionaires to help fund the advancements needed along the way. Top 5 Scariest Bioweapons: Photos The man behind the 2045 Initiative, described as a nonprofit organization, is a Russian named Dmitry Itskov. Artificial Jellyfish Made From Rat Cells. Aside from Frankenstein, previous attempts to make synthetic life have focused on genes.
Geneticist Craig Venter and his colleagues, for example, announced in 2010 that they had created a one-celled creature by inserting an artificial genome in an existing cell that reproduced. Now a separate team of scientists from Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology have built an eight-armed jellyfish by inserting muscle cells from a rat into a sheet of silicone. The resulting "medusoid," as they called it, could offer insights into tissue engineering — such as re-building a heart. And show that when building tissues, there might be several ways or materials to use other than those found in nature. PHOTOS: Five Scariest Bioweapons. Real-time Discovery Engine - YourVersion: Discover Your Version of the Web™