Science of the Future
Lab grown, cell based salmon now on sale in San Francisco Bay area
It's lunchtime at the San Francisco headquarters of Wildtype. And company founders Justin Kolbeck and Arye Elfenbein, M.D., believe what's ...
Genetics of stuttering: Early interventions could help as many as 400 million people worldwide
A global study has identified the DNA markers for stuttering, providing a genetic link that will pave the way for ...
Nuclear concerns: What are the dangers as AI gets baked into our nuclear arsenal
The people who study nuclear war for a living are certain that artificial intelligence will soon power the deadly weapons. None of them ...
Gene edited oats contain more fiber and are more climate resilient
McGill researchers just changed how oats grow. Using CRISPR-Cas9, they edited the crop’s DNA without adding any foreign material. That ...
AI pushes sustainability envelope in vertical farming
In a world where arable land is shrinking and climate instability threatens food security, vertical farming has emerged as a ...
Cracking the brain’s code: Breakthrough tools could transform treatment for Parkinson’s, ALS, and Huntington’s
The brain isn’t a uniform slab of gray matter — it’s a remarkably intricate landscape made up of thousands of ...
Viewpoint: AI and consciousness—How we will ethically interact with robots as they develop the ‘intelligence’ to show feelings
Sooner than we think, public opinion is going to diverge along ideological lines around rights and moral consideration for artificial intelligence ...
AI and robotics deployed to combat labor shortages and boost yields
Farmers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence and robotics to combat labor shortages and boost yields, even as these technologies ...
Aquaculture revolution: Fish farming and the promise of gene editing
Experts from the UK and the United States have shared findings on the responsible use of advanced genetic tools to ...
3D printer turns rotting food scraps into household items
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have unveiled a groundbreaking innovation: a 3D printer that transforms food scraps ...
Directed evolution: We can now speed up evolution inside human cells by decades
Inspired by the generative abilities of AI, directed evolution, a biological system that works much like machine learning, can actually be ...
Ectogenesis: How artificial placentas could aid premature babies, upend entrenched abortion views
Survival rates are likely to be improved for infants born prematurely, and those requiring invasive treatments -- including surgery, cell ...
With hopes fading about finding signs of life on the exoplanet K2-18b, scientists refocus on exploring the Moon and Mars, with providing food the largest challenge
If we are serious about settling on other planets, we must grow food efficiently outside the safe environment of Earth ...
Longevity medicine: Exploitation or an innovative approach to health?
Establishing a new discipline of medicine is no mean feat. Longevity doctors have started to make progress by establishing learning ...
Woke AI: Trump shifts monitoring focus from chemical and biological weapons to rooting out ‘political correctness’
When the Biden administration created an “A.I. Safety Institute” two years ago, its charge was to act as a kind ...
7 technologically futuristic foods are already rolling out
As the global population accelerates towards nearly 10 billion by mid-century, the imperative to transform food production systems has never ...
How to stop malaria-spreading mosquitoes? If approved, gene editing could do it
Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, ...
Climate change is pushing more and more species towards extinction. Gene editing may be a savior
Gene editing technologies, such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction efforts, can be repurposed to provide what an international ...
AI, drones and robots: Future farming
Many modern farms already use GPS-guided tractors and digital technology such as farm-management software systems. Now, advances in artificial intelligence ...
Universal cancer vaccine? mRNA technology is promising
An experimental mRNA vaccine that supercharges existing cancer treatments could be laying the groundwork for a “universal” cancer vaccine, according ...
‘True intelligence’: What is AI ‘height dimension’ and its reach for human-like higher level thinking
[A]rtificial intelligence systems could truly become more like human brains, and some researchers believe they know how: AI design must ...
Fungus free rice? Dream CRISPR gene edited breakthrough could significantly address global hunger
In a groundbreaking advancement, researchers from the University of California, Davis, along with an international team, have harnessed the power ...
Chef Aiman: New Dubai restaurant helmed by AI chef
Dubai is known for pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and it is once again making headlines—this time with ...
Genetic tests can now predict childhood obesity, especially in whites—and could be employed to sharply curtail it
What if we could prevent people from developing obesity? The World Obesity Federation expects more than half the global population ...
Lab-grown meat labels: USDA finalizing rules on cell-cultivated meat amid protests
[The] U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is finalizing new national rules for labeling and marketing lab-grown meat, also known as cell-cultivated meat ...
Gene-edited tweaks of produce opens the door to improve tomatoes and rice without using transgenics
In a study published in Nature Communications titled “Construction of multi-targeted CRISPR libraries in tomato to overcome functional redundancy at genome-scale level,” ...
Full-scale body scans of organs, vessels and bones could revolutionize disease detection
Scientists expect to gain unprecedented insights into human ageing and the earliest signs of disease after scanning 100,000 people from ...
