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This Implant Could One Day Control Your Sleep and Wake Cycles
Smithsonian ^ | JUNE 18, 2021 | By Dieynaba Young

Posted on 06/21/2021 11:02:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The so-called ‘living pharmacy’ will be able to manufacture pharmaceuticals from inside the body

The implantable living pharmacy, which is still in the “proof of concept” stage of development, is actually envisioned as two separate devices—a microchip implant and an armband. The implant will contain a layer of living synthetic cells, along with a sensor that measures temperature, a short-range wireless transmitter and a photo detector. The cells are sourced from a human donor and reengineered to perform specific functions. They’ll be mass produced in the lab, and slathered onto a layer of tiny LED lights.

The microchip will be set with a unique identification number and encryption key, then implanted under the skin in an outpatient procedure. The chip will be controlled by a battery-powered hub attached to an armband. That hub will receive signals transmitted from a mobile app.

Using short-range wireless communications, the hub will receive the signal and activate the LED lights inside the chip. The lights will shine on the synthetic cells, stimulating them to generate two compounds that are naturally produced in the body. The compounds will be released directly into the bloodstream, heading towards targeted locations, such as a tiny, centrally-located structure in the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) that serves as master pacemaker of the circadian rhythm. Whatever the target location, the flow of biomolecules will alter the natural clock...

The synthetic cells will be kept isolated from the host’s immune system by a membrane constructed of novel biomaterials, allowing only nutrients and oxygen in and only the compounds out. Should anything go wrong...swallow a pill that would kill the cells inside the chip only, leaving the rest of their body unaffected.

(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: control; implant; livingpharmacy
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To: x_plus_one

Sounds sorta like “The Island”


21 posted on 06/21/2021 11:47:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: BenLurkin

How wonderful! A microchip that will cure disease, dispense vaccine, monitor your vitals and send them to your doc, your insurance co, Central Healthcare and when you are no longer useful administer The Mostly Peaceful Exit drug to send you off so the government can collect their death taxes from you that they have eagerly waiting for because they also had access to your digital currency app.

1984 was peanuts compared to what they can do today.


22 posted on 06/21/2021 11:48:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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To: x_plus_one

My favorite Dust Episode:

“Singularity Stories Vol. I” | DUST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mmF-JGk_o


23 posted on 06/21/2021 11:51:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I already have one! It’s called a nagging wife (just Joking:-)


24 posted on 06/21/2021 11:54:16 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: BenLurkin

**Like an on/off switch.***

Like the one in “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison.

For every minute you are late, it is deducted from your life span.


25 posted on 06/21/2021 12:02:15 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: SaveFerris

Take the blue pill or the red pill?


26 posted on 06/21/2021 12:05:51 PM PDT by dblshot (RActually Texas City)
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To: SaveFerris

Take the blue pill or the red pill?


27 posted on 06/21/2021 12:09:00 PM PDT by dblshot (RActually Texas City)
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To: Harpotoo

And you should be thankful for her.


28 posted on 06/21/2021 12:14:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: x_plus_one

are you talking about https://www.watchdust.tv/MOVIES

If so I had never heard of it, but looks interesting.


29 posted on 06/21/2021 12:15:34 PM PDT by algore
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

lol...


30 posted on 06/21/2021 12:19:01 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll take the Viagra special with a side order of brain enhancements.


31 posted on 06/21/2021 12:21:43 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn."m)
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To: BenLurkin

For 42 years of Hard Time and counting?-) Next time she comes by my cell I’ll slip her a note:-)


32 posted on 06/21/2021 12:21:52 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: BenLurkin

No thanks.

5.56mm


33 posted on 06/21/2021 12:30:30 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: SaveFerris

The chip will be wirelessly/blue tooth connected to your smart meter in your home, computer, smart phone, GPS in your vehicle, heart & brain chips and chips in other organs.

You will not have to think any more.

Big Brother will take care of you.

You will never have to make any choices on your own again.

Power failures could be a disaster, but no one will know nor care, not even you.


34 posted on 06/21/2021 12:32:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: corkoman

BOL!

A semi secret nick name for me from my immediate family, siblings and close friends is: Dave Rube Goldberg!


35 posted on 06/21/2021 12:36:35 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, maybe yours.


36 posted on 06/21/2021 12:38:59 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: BenLurkin

New ransomware attack.

Send me bitcoin or I’ll give you cancer!


37 posted on 06/21/2021 12:39:51 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Alas Babylon!

The hacker will have many slaves.


38 posted on 06/21/2021 1:00:11 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn."m)
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To: SaveFerris

That’s why I said if “they know”.

We live in extremely strange times.

Look at society and see evidence of Romans 1:18-32 happening everywhere ... but people championing homosexuality in society after they’ve departed from the knowledge of the Lord are blind to it.

To the point that I’ve now started saying it’s almost as if all the comedy and all of the satire of the past has been brought to mind and people are saying “Hey, hold my beer!” as they set off to outdo it in real life.

There was a Far Side where two scientist are looking into the leading edge of a glacier and just inside the glacier is an outhouse with a very surprised looking man frozen in the moment he was coming out.

One scientist said to the other that that the ice age had indeed caught folks by surprise.

With all of the signs being painted across the sky, literally, people are STILL gonna be caught by surprise by the doings in Revelation.


39 posted on 06/21/2021 1:00:29 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BenLurkin

microchip for sheep = Democrats


40 posted on 06/21/2021 1:01:57 PM PDT by butlerweave
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