The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in the last few years. This note argues that it will soon become self-conscious, since the final developmental step is embodiment.
Jakob Tanner is one of the pioneers of body and drug history in German-speaking historiography. For decades he has been one of the most important protagonists of an analytical framework that combines social history with the history of knowledge and historical-anthropological approaches. In this interview, Tanner reflects upon the topic of this issue of Body Politics and explains how the concept...
In der gegenwärtigen Arbeit wurden die Strukturvielfalt und die genetischen und enzymatischen Grundlagen der Indolalkaloidbiosynthese in Basidiomyceten in Psilocybe spp. untersucht. Durch in silico-Analysen und heterologe Expression ist es gelungen, die Biosynthese des Psilocybins aufzuklären, die verantwortlichen Gene zu identifizieren und die resultierenden Enzyme biochemisch und...