beautifulBabies™: Artificial Cells Initiative

Imagine choosing your child's tendency toward Gluttony. Or, Pride. Or, Greed. Or, some other appealing personality trait. Amazing, yes?

While we have made exciting progress in allowing parents to choose existing hereditary traits for their children, we are now embarking on an even more exciting course.

In our latest initiative, we hope to implant artificially created cells that determine new characteristics into pre-embryonic stem-cells. This will allow the same precise** control that many of our adult residents now enjoy (See the May 20, 2007 Post)..

At present, our manipulation of the genome affects only the particular individual; the characteristics do not get passed on to the offspring (Somatic Gene Therapy). By working at the pre-embryonic stage (Germline Choice Technologies (GCT)) the characteristics do get passed on to all following generations.

However, and this is the truly amazing part, because we believe in the freedom to make choices about our own individual character, these artificial cells will also carry a mechanism allowing many of the traits to be adjusted, or nullified, at any time during an individuals' life (for you geneticists our there, the process is inspired by Mario Capecchi's work with CRE Recombinase). Amazing, yes?

Further, in the spirit of avoiding behavioral & genomic uniformity within the community, this mechanism will be self-monitoring: it will not allow an adjustment, or drift, into morally undesirable or behaviorally homogeneous territory. Imagine!

beautifulBabies™: beautiful on the outside, beautiful on the inside.

** While physical traits can be precisely determined, genetic dispositions for personality and character depend greatly on the environment in which the child is nurtured.
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elBeam™: Beaming Energy Wirelessly

The dream of wirelessly beaming electricity through the air is coming true at beautifuliving™! David Scott, our founder, is seen here inspecting a solar paneled, electron-beaming prototype of the elBeam™, which has a range of .8 Kilometers (1/2 mile).

"Our goal is to achieve distances great enough to link to our SolarWinds™ satellite (See the July 14, 2008 Post)," says project leader, Dr. Scanlon. "When this is accomplished, electrons captured by the SolarWinds™ panels in space-orbit will be beamed down to our elBeam™ here on earth for wireless distribution."

David Scott shared in the enthusiasm, adding, "The elBeam™ is a very exciting breakthrough that will also pave the way for multitudes of new lifestyle-enhancing amenities, including more robust intercommunication with residents' personal bio-enhancements."
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Happy Grass

Our founder, David Scott, takes a hands-on look at a specimen from one of many exciting beautifulScience™ projects: EmotivMagic™ Flora. Still in development, these plants will form the basis of a new line of bio-botanical wonders with a very interesting attribute: The physical expression of feelings!

Imagine a field of grass that twists and turns and sways in fantastical patterns and colors! All by its own collective will. And, all because it feels good.

EmotivMagic™ Flora is being developed using upgraded techniques to those which brought us ColorMagic™ Grass, introduced at beautifuliving™ in 2004. Utilizing an exciting new nanoconvergence approach (biotechnology merged with nanotechnology) adds the freedom of motion, which will really bring the hills alive!
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