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Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino in talks for multiple title fights, still eyes Ronda Rousey

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Former Strikeforce champion and current Invicta FC featherweight titleholder Cristiane Justinocould have a busy year coming up.

Invicta FC is targeting Cyborg for a featherweight title defense in a reboot of a previously scheduled match. Invicta FC President Shannon Knapp told MMAjunkie the promotion wants to pair Justino with Ediane Gomes (10-2) for Invicta FC 8 in March.

The events location and date are not yet set, but Knapp said it could be the first time the promotion travels outside of Kansas City, Kan., where its held the bulk of its events.

Additionally, Justino (12-1) is also in negotiations to fight for a title in the muay Thai promotion Lion Fight, which is based in Las Vegas.

After a smashing debut at this past Septembers Lion Fight 11 event, where Cyborg earned a third-round TKO via body shots, Lion Fights President and CEO Scott Kent and Justino co-manager George Prajin told MMAjunkie that verbal agreements are in place for a title bout against an unnamed opponent on March 28. Contracts have yet to be signed.

The activity is good news for Justino, who sat out 2012 after a positive drug test for a steroid that stripped her of the Strikeforce title and prompted a one-year suspension. Her most recent appearance in the cage was at this past Julys Invicta FC 6 event, when she pounded out Marloes Coenen in a rematch to win the inaugural Invicta featherweight title.

Justino hasnt lost a fight since her pro MMA debut in 2005.

Knapp said 2014 could also see the dominant fighter drop down for an exploratory, non-title run at 135 pounds, the territory of her fiercest rival: UFC womens bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey.

Prajin said that while he and Justino co-manager Tito Ortiz were unable to come to a deal with the UFC on a first round of negotiations, he didnt rule out the possibility of future talks. Prajin also said that while Justino could make 135 pounds, it might not be a permanent move, and he reiterated a previous stance that 140 pounds is preferable. In an interview prior to the failed talks, UFC President Dana White said a Justino vs. Rousey fight could take place at 140 pounds.

I think she could make 135 for a few fights; I just dont see her doing it for her career, Prajin said. [The UFC] just didnt make it easy. They wanted six fights, and they also didnt want to share the (pay-per-view) revenue with Cris, and those are just a few things that we felt werent fair.

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Video: UFC’s Jessica Eye discusses MMA futures of Holly Holm, Cris ‘Cyborg’

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After winning her UFC debut in October against former Strikeforce womens bantamweight champion Sarah Kaufman,Jessica Eye has her sights set on a title run.

Eye (11-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) will take her next step toward that goal when she meets Alexis Davis (15-5 MMA, 2-0 UFC) in a month at UFC 170 in Las Vegas.

But this past Friday at a Q&A prior to the weigh-ins for UFC on FOX 10 in Chicago, Eye was asked about a pair of fighters who arent in the UFC and what she makes of their futures in the sport.

UnbeatenHolly Holm will fight for Legacy FCs first womens bantamweight title in April, but many observers believe shes on a quick path to the UFC.

Former Strikeforce womens featherweight champion and current Invicta 145-pound titleholder Cristiane Justino, though, wont be able to fight in the UFC unless she can make 135 pounds, as the UFC currently only offers that division, and later this spring will add the 115-pound class.

Eye said she hopes Holm, a former pro boxer who went 33-2-3 in that sport, will settle on one sport or the other.

I think Hollys great, Eye said. I actually saw her fight in Bellator and she ended up stopping the girl with a liver punch. Me? Im a striker. I admire people that are willing to stand up and find that sweet science. I think shes a great fighter.

But hopefully she finds a home for herself and figure out what shes going to do with her career. They said she was making more money in boxing then stay in boxing if youre going to make more money.

As for Cyborg, Eye sternly cautioned that the Brazilian should stop chasing the UFC until it adds a 145-pound division.

Hear what Eye had to say about Holm and Cyborg in the video above.

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Welcome to the Age of the Bionic Superbug

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Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has crept upon us. Or so a group of reviewers said recently when they evaluated where the science of cyborgs has led.

Is this era one of super-powered, tech-enhanced humans? If you look at it through one lens, yestoday we have medical enhancements that would, a few years ago, have sent sci-fi enthusiasts into a geeked out tailspin.

But another look reveals the subtler reality: a more incremental cyborg science, played out in the bodies of bugs.

The past few years have been saturated with stories about cyborg insects. We've heard about cockroaches turned into fuel cells, moths whose flight patterns we can control with implanted wires, and flying insects employable as airborne spies. Cool? Yes. Creepy? Yes. But do these bionic bugs offer a glimpse of a future that might be in store for humans as well?

Consider that wiring up the brain of an insect can build understanding of how electronic chips embedded in human brains can help remedy Parkinson's disease. Of course, there are ethical concerns to add to the mix: is it fair to strip independence from any living thing, even a bug, by turning it into a machine? Or on the other hand, does this robo-bug revolution in fact signal something positive about the way humans might value the long-despised critters?

"Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potential, but also give rise to major ethical concerns," reads the press release from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which published the review about cyborgs.

These concerns are naturally larger when it comes to human bodies, because in the future, an enhanced ability to channel signals into a human brain might have complex, if not questionable outcomes. Insects on the other handphysically simple, easily attainable, and 'just bugs' after allprovide perfect vessels for our experiments.

Alper Bozkurt, an electrical and computer engineering researcher at North Carolina State University, is part of a team that wires cockroaches up to tiny wearable radio backpacks, allowing the researchers to transmit small pulses of electricity by remote-control via the backpack and into the cockroach's antennae. This triggers the nerves there, prompting the insect to change direction. "The cockroaches use their antennae like a blind person," says Bozkurt, "So we think this pulse creates the sense of a barrier."

"IT'S NOT LIKE YOU KNOW THE PATH BETWEEN YOU AND THE VICTIM," BOZKURT SAYSUNLESS YOU HAVE A SCURRYING ARMY OF CYBORG INSECTS TO MAP IT FOR YOU, OF COURSE

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New 52 Cyborg Superman and Other Changes – "Great Scott" 144 (Nov. 1st, 2013) – Video

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New 52 Cyborg Superman and Other Changes - "Great Scott" 144 (Nov. 1st, 2013)
In the 144th episode of "Great Scott," I discuss the new origin of Cyborg Superman in the New 52 from DC Comics. Controversy was nigh when people discovered ...

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Injustice – Gods Among Us: Cyborg Superman Super Attack Moves [Ultimate Edition] – Video

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In defence of the cyborg cockroach

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University of Otago bioethics lecturer Mike King discusses remotely controlled ''cyborg cockroaches''. Photo by Gregor Richardson.

Those comments were made last week by University of Otago bioethics lecturer Mike King, who spoke on ''Remotely controlled cyborg cockroaches: wrongful encroachment?'' at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference in Dunedin.

United States firm Backyard Brains sparked some controversy last year by promoting the creation of ''remote-control'' cockroaches.

US youngsters can follow an information kit and surgically implant electrodes into cockroaches, enabling them to be controlled by smartphones.

The firm said this would have educational benefits, by teaching youngsters more about neuroscience.

And researchers from North Carolina State University have also suggested a useful purpose for such ''biobots''.

A swarm of cyborg cockroaches carrying electronic sensors could be used to map dangerous areas, such as the interior of buildings which have collapsed after an earthquake.

Dr King said that many people found cockroaches repellent.

And it was also ''quite understandable'' that many people would, at first view, find it ''repugnant'' for children to be undertaking surgery on such insects.

But many of the claimed ethical objections to creating ''biobots'' were unconvincing, and evidence, in fact, suggested that cockroaches did not feel pain.

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