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VERO BEACH — Ray Kurzweil is a visionary and a man who believes it is possible to live forever.He presaged the World Wide Web, is the developer of the first flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer … the list goes on.He will speak at the Emerson …

Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson tell us how to interface with our own genetic replicas. by Anneli Rufus That guy over there: He’s got your eyes. He’s got your hair. He looks exactly like you, and when he talks or sings or yells, he sounds exactly like you, too. You’ll be able to handle him like a pro if you’ve read Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson’s book How to Defeat Your Own Clone, a …

ARMED with a dancefloor full of electro-pop anthems, his own clothing designs and a kitsch girl dance troupe to wear them, Alexander Price is living the dream, writes MATT TROLLOPE.

The double A-Side release, a collaboration between Alexander and acclaimed DJ / producer Andrew Friendly (Ministry of Sound Ibiza) embodies Alexander’s own story and the experience of witnessing his energetic and innovative visual act live.

On the eve of the Telegraph’s annual ‘Scientists Meet the Media’ party, hosted by the Royal Society, its president, Martin Rees, celebrates 350 years of one of our greatest institutions

Scientists are using family trees to track disease-causing genes and going back in history, sometimes hundreds of years, to track the person who first produced the faulty genes.

If people could choose the characteristics of their unborn children, would they? Would they pay money to get a brown-eyed girl or a green-eyed boy?

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Published: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:16 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:16 a.m. REDWOOD CITY, Calif.

The new movie “Extraordinary Measures” is based on the true story of a father who starts a company to develop a treatment for the rare genetic disease threatening to kill two of his children before they turn 10.

A Silicon Valley start-up says it can help eradicate more than 100 diseases by allowing couples to avoid having children with the carrier genes.

A Silicon Valley start-up says it can help eradicate more than 100 diseases by allowing couples to avoid having children with the carrier genes.

FERTILITY regulators have triggered a new row over designer babies by allowing doctors to destroy embryos affected by more than 100 genetic conditions, including many illnesses that are not life-threatening.

Think about what Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, Shawn Johnson and Diane Lane all have in common. Babe, with his hands gripped tightly around a bat, once made the crowd hush in awe. Einstein was able to easily calculate numbers, mixed with letters, and so forth, in only a matter of seconds.

DEMAND for designer babies lacking faulty genes will grow a lot over the next decade, according to a leading geneticist cited in The Times of London.

Parental demand for “designer babies” screened to lack faulty genes will grow dramatically over the next decade, with new discoveries about the influence of DNA on health, a leading geneticist has predicted.

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London, Dec 26 : Ben Affleck, the star of Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, has topped sperm bank California Cryobank’s celebrity look-a-like sperm donors list.

A sperm bank that offers women the chance to pick celebrity look-a-like donors has revealed that “Ben Affleck” is top choice.