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Biotech
Brazil, Latin American farmers targeted by biotech
Apr 3, 2013
Monsanto reports earnings and a lot of the company’s growth is based on Latin America.
Better, stronger, faster: How close are we to becoming cyborgs?
by
Molly Wood
Mar 15, 2013
Science fiction loves the merger of the human body and machine. In mid-March 2013, what's the status of the merger? Will Oremus, a writer for Slate who has been working on a series about using tech to build better people, joins Marketplace Tech host David Brancaccio to explain how far we've come and where we are headed.
Telepathic rats communicate via computer
by
Molly Wood
Mar 1, 2013
A lab at Duke University has taken us one step closer to mind-melding, using rats.
The medical Internet of things and the future of health care
by
Molly Wood
Feb 8, 2013
How will health care be transformed by smart devices, continuous patient monitoring, and tele-medicine?
Always on (the Internet) in 2013, and controlling a robotic arm with a brain implant
by
Molly Wood
Dec 30, 2012
Molly Wood of CNET gives her tech predictions for 2013, and Professor Andrew Schwartz describes research that helped a paraplegic woman control a robot arm with a brain implant.
YouTube to pull back funding, and skin healing plastic
by
Molly Wood
Nov 13, 2012
YouTube may slash funding to over half of its new channels and a plastic that repairs itself like skin heals itself, but faster.