News: Risky enough business? Posted by Michael Chorost [Entry posted at 8th February 2006 09:55 PM GMT] I?m an obvious beneficiary of medical technology. Without the computer surgically embedded in my skull, I?d be totally deaf. The device, called a ?cochlear implant,? routes past my damaged inner ear by triggering my auditory nerves with sixteen ... Click to continue Comment on this news story

International Symposium on Stem Cell Collaboration, San Francisco Michael Chorost Location: San Francisco, USA Who am I? Michael Chorost is a freelance science writer, teacher, and public speaker. His recent publication is a memoir of getting a cochlear implant titled Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human (Houghton Mifflin, 2005): more on him at http://www.michaelchorost.com. Previous months >>   February 2006