by Giles Brown | Jan 5, 2021 | Science
Maryland-based biotech company United Therapeutics is planning to begin transplanting organs from genetically modified pigs into humans — and as soon as this year, as Medium-owned publication Future Human reports. “We’re right on that cusp. We’re looking to get into...
by Giles Brown | Jan 4, 2021 | Health, Science
According to several UK experts, there’s a chance that vaccines currently being administered in the country won’t provide sufficient immunity against new strains of the coronavirus emerging in both the UK and South Africa, Reuters reports. The scientists are most...
by Giles Brown | Dec 4, 2020 | Science
A team of scientists has restored the eyesight of elderly mice by effectively reversing the process of aging at a molecular level. The cohort of Harvard Medical School researchers removed thousands of chemical markers that accumulate over time from the mice’s DNA,...
by Giles Brown | Dec 2, 2020 | Science
The first lab-grown, or cultured, meat product has been given the green light to be sold for human consumption. In the landmark approval, regulators in Singapore granted Just, a San Francisco–based startup, the right to sell cultured chicken—in the form of chicken...
by Giles Brown | Dec 1, 2020 | Science
Predicting Biology Google’s DeepMind team developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that seems to have cracked a biological challenge so complicated that it’s seemed all but impossible for decades. DeepMind announced in a blog post Monday that its scientists...
by Giles Brown | Nov 30, 2020 | Science
Martian Electrolyzer Researchers from Washington University in St Louis believe they have figured out a new system that could pull significant amounts of oxygen and hydrogen out of the briny water deposits present on the surface of Mars. The electrolysis process could...
