His parents told a court that they wanted to keep the possibility of using the sperm to eventually have children that would be genetically related to...
It’s a tricky one. The scientists behind the work argue that there’s nothing really human about these rats. Throughout the study, the team examined the rats...
“It’s an important step forward in progress into [understanding and treating] brain diseases,” says Julian Savulescu, a bioethicist at the National University of Singapore, who was...
We are arguably a long way off from transplanting miniature brain blobs into people (although some have tried putting them in rodents). But we are getting...
So far, B cells haven’t gotten the same attention—indeed, genetically engineered versions have never been tested in a human. That’s partly because “engineering B cells is not...
But there are other hurdles—some so challenging that many scientists have given up. For one thing, nudging the stem cells in the right direction requires, it...
The news: A new system called OrganEx stopped the deterioration of cells in pig organs one hour after the animal’s death, a finding that suggests cells...
They then tested OrganEx’s efficacy by comparing pigs treated with it with pigs hooked up to a more traditional machine used by hospitals to save the...
In a breakthrough, researchers from Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston discovered a potential drug with leukemia-killing compounds. Published in...
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 New privacy-focused apps are ill-equipped to cope with moderation demandsIt makes maintaining the...
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