That, in WEF-speak, means the "fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres".
These will encompass novel, smart, functionalised and hybrid materials for diverse applications whose discovery and routes to bio-production will be stimulated by the fusion of new technologies positioned across physical, digital and biological spheres.
The theme of this year's World Economic Forum meeting is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, "a fusion of technologies, blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres," writes WEF founder Klaus Schwab. .
This era is characterized by a fusion of technologies, blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres - and expected to lead to radical changes in how we live, work and relate to one another.
By applying the notion of evolution to ethics, Alexander explains that one can mean either the mere integration of the biological into the ethical sphere, or treating morals as one part of a comprehensive view of the universe, in which a steady development from the lower to the higher can be observed, a development which follows the law of the survival of the fittest (Alexander 1889: 14).
"Optical tweezers" is a related technique in which a tightly focused laser beam exerts a radiation force large enough to deflect, guide, and trap micron-sized objects ranging from dielectric spheres to biological samples such as viruses, single living cells, and organelles within cells.
Variability in the sphere assay among biological replicates by more than a log10 factor is not unusual [ 42].
This is based on the idea that a biological cell can be approximated by a sphere, and spheres can be packed more efficiently using HCP (the most compact packing for spheres) than using SCP.
Preliminary experiments in rats suggest that the bacteria can be steered toward tumours using specially designed magnetic coils.Metin Sitti, director of Carnegie Mellon University's NanoRobotics Lab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is using bacteria as biological motors to propel small spheres through fluids.
These genes were then loaded to a database (DAVID Bioinformatics Resources) [ 27] for the recognition of biological processes potentially important for the sphere cells.
