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‘Like, wow’!: 3-D ultrasound images allow blind parents ‘glimpse’ at their newborn’s face

Debra Bruno | 
[S]ophisticated technology allows [blind parents] to “see” their little ones before they are born by creating a 3-D image to ...
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Viewpoint: Is there a scientific basis to ban gene drive technology that can rid us of virus-carrying rodents and mosquitoes?

Kostas Vavitsas | 
Gene drives may be invaluable tools to control the spread of parasites, invasive species, and disease carriers. But the technology ...
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Meet STACI: STAT’s fascinating interactive guide to AI in healthcare

Casey Ross, Dominic Smith | 
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the importance of the technology in medicine: In the last few months, hospitals have used AI ...
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Coronavirus accelerates adoption of artificial intelligence

Michela Cimberle | 
Data, artificial intelligence, digital health systems and connectivity have been aiding the fight against COVID-19 in multiple ways, uncovering new ...
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Real life Jurassic Park? Recovered prehistoric DNA raises prospect of resurrecting species

Tautvydas Shuipys | 
Even before Jurassic Park became a staple of pop culture in the early 1990s, geneticists have been on the hunt ...
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With a boost from COVID-19, the ‘Neobiological Revolution’ is transforming humanity

Jane Metcalfe | 
In the 1990s, the digital revolution came along and transformed, well, pretty much everything, from the way we communicate with ...
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Pangalactic intelligence: Here’s a guess about how many aliens in the universe

Anil Ananthaswamy | 
[I]n excess of four billion years ago, practically as soon as our planet had sufficiently cooled from its fiery formation, ...
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Civilization inflection point? China posed to pass US as world leader in biotechnology

Mandy Mayfield | 
China is edging forward as a world leader in the biotech sector, one expert said. “Biotechnologies, including synthetic biology, are ...
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Artificial consent: Unproven AI making key decisions about patients health care without their knowledge

Erin Brodwin, Rebecca Robbins | 
At a growing number of prominent hospitals and clinics around the country, clinicians are turning to AI-powered decision support tools ...
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Geopolitics of the future: AI autonomous fighting robots could spark a news arms race

Demond Cureton | 
Abishur Prakash, geopolitical futurist for the Center for Innovating the Future, discussed the potential scenarios that could unfold in the ...
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Viewpoint: AI trolls try to undermine innovation by grossly exaggerating risks

Robert Atkinson | 
[A]n open letter, signed by various scientists and researchers [warns] EU policymakers to beware of calls for “weakening regulation and ...
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Lab-made breast milk could ‘spell trouble’ for $45-billion infant formula industry

Julia Sklar | 
It won’t be easy to cell-culture breast milk in the lab. But early results are promising enough to spell trouble ...
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Teaching AI to think ethically

Edd Gent | 
[M]athematicians have developed a model that can help businesses spot when commercial AI systems might make shady choices in the ...
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Can science reverse physical aging? It can—in mice

Even though the average life-expectancy for humans continues to rise, living longer is often associated with age-related health issues. Now, ...
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Why haven’t we been contacted by alien civilizations? Maybe because most have extinguished themselves, as we likely will

Tom Siegfried | 
For some reason, civilization is not a self-perpetuating state of affairs on this planet. And perhaps not on other planets, ...
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Space-thriving bacteria hold key to quickly and cheaply producing innovative polio vaccine

Matthew Phelan | 
[Molecular biologist Mike] Daly has been investigating ways to apply the lessons learned from this bacteria’s unique radiation resistance to ...
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How can we better expose ‘silent’ war crimes? Thousands of human rights violations identified through crowdsourced evidence

Karen Hao | 
By some estimates, [a coalition between Saudi Arabia and eight other Sunni Arab states has] carried out over 20,000 air ...
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How to keep virtual reality from taking over real life

Alexandros Skandalis | 
American R&B star John Legend is doing a major live show on Thursday June 25 to promote his new album, ...
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Anti-biotech groups call for EU-wide ban on disease-fighting gene drives, defying scientists’ recommendations

Natasha Foote | 
[Editor's note: More than 78 European environmental and agricultural organizations have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on gene ...
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Concerned about ‘fake news’? It could get a lot worse with AI

Vanessa Bates Ramirez | 
Fake news has certainly become a widespread and insidious problem, and in a year when we’re dealing with both a ...
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Extraterrestrial alert: 737 places where aliens might be hiding

George Dvorsky | 
The Exotica Catalog was put together by researchers from Breakthrough Listen, a decade-long program seeking to find signs of intelligent ...
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GMO skeptics are also likely to reject nano food technologies that could enhance flavor and nutrition, survey shows

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) have ...
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Why space travel demands a well-stocked cosmic pharmacy

Troy Farah | 
In space, no one can hear you sneeze. But if an astronaut does catch the flu, it can be a ...
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Bioprinting human ears inside living mice—all without a single surgical cut

Shelly Fan | 
Tissue engineering just got wilder and weirder. Using nothing but light and bioink, scientists were able to directly print a ...
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Scanning the horizon for the next decade’s biotech breakthroughs, including tools to fight the next pandemic

Luke Kemp | 
In 2017 we published the results of a ‘horizon scan’ that looked at emerging issues in bioengineering (Wintle et al., ...
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How supercomputing is taking on the COVID-19 pandemic

Jeremy Smith | 
In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, the haughty supercomputer Deep Thought is asked whether he can ...
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Supercomputers take first steps toward replacing human clinical drug trials

Ray Kurzweil | 
We are seeing the beginnings of a profound paradigm shift in health technology. AI simulations have the potential to test ...
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