Science of the Future
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Developing ‘synthetic’ food for a Mars journey could revolutionize food systems on Earth
In Dinner on Mars, Evan Fraser and co-author Lenore Newman — Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment at ...
What precautions should you take after a head injury? Saliva test for concussions possible as early as 2023
A saliva-based concussion test could become available in 2023 after a U.S. patent was awarded to Quadrant Biosciences, Penn State ...
‘Dawn of synthetic medicine’: How wearable devices can transform personalized medicine
We are at the dawn of synthetic medicine, which will forever change how doctors and patients approach healthcare. In fact, ...
Forensic genealogy: How new advances in DNA analysis can help solve decades-old cold cases
A new method for solving forensic genetic puzzles is ten times faster than the current method investigators use to solve ...
Life-saving venom? How deadly compounds can be used as medications
Scientists estimate that there are more than 220,000 venomous species, ranging from jellyfish to mammals. That’s 15 percent of Earth’s animal ...
‘Critical milestone’: FDA greenlights cellular chicken — first lab-grown meat — for US market
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 16] declared a lab-grown meat product developed by a California start-up to be ...
Will India miss out on the emerging agricultural biotechnology revolution?
As soon as the government took the decision to release India’s first genetically-modified (GM) food crop — Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 ...
Podcast: BMI useless? Lab-grown meat a ‘pipe dream;’ Did early humans eat each other?
Using body mass index (BMI) to assess a patient's health may yield misleading results and undermine public trust in medicine, ...
Age of rejuvenation: Using ‘genetic Botox’ to target wrinkles, sagging and aging skin
In my previous articles, I covered the wonderful female medical doctors working in longevity medicine, female reproductive longevity and inequality, ...
Singapore – the first country to approve the sale of cultivated meat – has become the epicenter of alternative protein innovation. Here’s how
Singapore became the first country to approve the commercial sale of a protein grown “out of thin air”, according to its ...
Lab-grown blood? Synthetic red blood cells last longer and help patients require fewer transfusions
For the first time, laboratory-grown red blood cells have been transfused into human recipients, potentially paving the way for groundbreaking ...
3D-printed organs? These self-assembling nanoparticles may help make it reality
As the human population soars and medical advances extend our lifespans, the need for organ transplants and the demand for ...
Growing crops in space: International mission aims to develop plants that can adapt to climate change on Earth
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched seeds into ...
Library of the future: How DNA storage can break through current technological storage limits
While DNA can store data orders of magnitude greater in complexity and density than today's storage media, researchers are grappling ...
Viewpoint: Satellites, artificial intelligence and smart machines key to addressing agriculture’s sustainability and social challenges of the future
Migel Tissera, Co-Founder and CTO of Metaspectral, says that technology has a significant role in improving agriculture sustainability ...
AI and blood poisoning: New tool could help detect sepsis before it becomes fatal
Each year in the United States, sepsis kills over a quarter million people — more than stroke, diabetes, or lung ...
Shrink shrimp’s carbon footprint by half? Here’s how AI-led land-based seafood farms can sustainably meet our protein needs
Inside a humid warehouse in suburban Indianapolis, a company called Atarraya is using large metal containers and the latest technology ...
Underground farms, aquatic meals and more: What would our food system evolve into if an asteroid hit Earth?
Imagine a giant asteroid strikes the Earth a few years from now, blocking out the Sun and collapsing agriculture worldwide ...
DNA USB key? How we could store data for potentially thousands of years using the genetic code
The information stored in DNA defines what it is to be human (or any other species for that matter). But ...
AI has made massive strides in recent years — but it can’t perfectly replicate human language. What makes this task so complicated?
Researchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly ...
AI-powered speech-analyzing app could diagnose Parkinson’s, stroke, depression or cancer from just the sound of your voice
Voices offer lots of information. Turns out, they can even help diagnose an illness — and researchers are working on ...
Viewpoint: The still-shaky future of the alternative meat markets
People like the taste of meat and that alone explains why we have plant-based and other alternative forms of meat ...
Genes from honeybees and African frogs help create a new species of genetically modified mosquitoes that neutralize malaria at the source
Scientists have genetically modified the main malaria-carrying species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa to slow the growth of malaria-causing parasites ...
Why do some people live longer than others? This ‘lifespan machine’ scans thousands of worms every day to unlock the secrets of aging
Not far from the popular Barceloneta beach in Barcelona, Spain, an underground room houses 35 office scanners stored in refrigerated ...
With soaring costs and rising inflation, 50% of small US farmers plan to use new technologies like robotics to boost crop yields
With US inflation worsening, the research found that 80 percent of farmers now cite rising input costs as the biggest ...
Growing rice in the ocean? CRISPR might be utilized to tweak ancient genes could be a future superfood
Around 75 million years ago, a remarkable group of flowering plants known as seagrasses migrated back into the oceans from ...
This genome sequencing machine can decode a person’s genetic code twice as fast as before — driving costs down to just $200 a pop
Ten years ago, it cost about $10,000 for researchers to sequence a human genome. A few years ago, that fell to ...
