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ExtroBritannia Meeting - "Tomorrow's technologies emerging today - nanotechnology and stem cell rejuvenation: seizing the opportunity despite the scaremongers"

Date and Time: Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Local Time (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM UTC)

Location: Room 538, 5th Floor, Main Building, Birkbeck College - 32 Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7HX, UK | Google Maps

Description:

Come to hear and discuss the exciting possible near-term developments with some key 21st century technologies. This is not science fiction - it could be science fact, well within our lifetimes. Nanotech means manipulating substances at the level of individual molecules, creating materials and compounds with remarkable properties. Stem cell therapy has the potential to cure cruel degenerative diseases like Parkinsons and Motor Neurone Disease. Both technologies deserve to be progressed carefully and thoughtfully, but also quickly and seriously. In each case, misguided interventions such as the opposition to the Human Fertilisation & Embryology bill threaten to frustrate progress and prolong disease and impoverishment. The speakers describe how we can seize and guide the opportunity despite the scaremongers.

The meeting is sponsored by the UKTA, the United Kingdom Transhumanist Association. There is no charge to attend.

Speaker:

Julian Snape: "Latest developments with nanotechnology"

Darren Reynolds: "Reasons to support and improve the Human Fertilisation & Embryology bill"