For instance, if a thymus is grown from the cells of an organ donor, the new thymus could also be transplanted into the patient receiving the donor organ to prevent organ rejection. In this discourse, neurotechnology (NT) often features as the harbinger of a future in which the body is transformed in a process of ever-increasing ‘technologization’.

For dropouts or withdrawals, a ‘last observation carried forward’ strategy was used to estimate all missing measurements, whereby each missing value was replaced by the weight at the previous time period. This technique is used in hospitals across the world and has saved the lives of tens of thousands of burn patients. Written advice that is tailored and personalised for the individual has been shown to be more effective than traditional collective advice for diet and exercise behaviour change [ 7, 8]. In the artificial wombs, premature human babies will be surrounded by fluids, and receive nutrients and oxygen through an artificial placenta connected to their umbilical cord. Then, all recruits were randomised, by selecting a concealed token produced beforehand using a random number generator, to receive a future self-image immediately (early-image group), or to receive the image after 8 weeks (delayed-image group).Acute respiratory distress can occur in anyone, from premature babies to adults with lung disease or severe COVID-19. Starting from the living body as a muscle of thought, they created a score for movement and learning, which they have been practicing across Europe. I suspect that this mechanism is one of the ways that the actual human skin recognises different stimuli like temperature and movement,” says Insang You, a professor at POSTECH. In America alone, approximately 2 million people live with amputations, with about 190,000 amputations performed every year.

Dance engenders the spaces of familiarity and discovery, of remembering, of processing and of imagination. It blurred the lines between living and dying and recomposed the present formation of the public, inverting the era’s logics and spectrum of possible expressions. One hundred and forty-five people (age 18–79 years) with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 25 kg/m 2 were randomised to receive a hard copy future self-image at recruitment (early image) or after 8 weeks (delayed image). The Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland is home to a dynamic SHIME2 model of the artificial gastrointestinal tract – the first of its kind.Reading it through moments of collective assembly and somatic formulations of collective struggles, we locate such processes in the body as an autonomous, self-reflective system of material organization—but also as a place of encounter, of intersections, of entanglement.

We see an emancipatory and reformatory potential in dancing and choreographing as they create space for testing ideas and movements.While impressive and life-saving, could having an artificial heart also change how a patient perceives the world, relationships, and life in general? Signals generated by the implant are sent via the auditory nerve to the brain, where these signals are recognised as sound. Artificial lungs, or ‘microfluidic oxygenators’, can support patients with respiratory distress suffering from low blood oxygen levels. As functionaries of global political and production systems, we must be attentive to how the present frames of living shape us. A sample size of 150 was determined to have the power to detect a 1-kg weight difference between groups, which was the mean weight difference seen at 8 weeks in the pilot study [ 9].