Science of the Future
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Cheese without the cow? Lactose-intolerant Shell engineer developing gene-edited soybean-based ‘cheese’ that stretches, tastes and toasts just like the real thing
In the United States alone, roughly 9 million cows are devoted to churning out torrents of milk a year which, ...
‘Understanding long COVID is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall’: Research emerges on long-time sufferers
“There is currently no accepted case definition for symptoms or duration of long COVID. Consequently, it is difficult to estimate ...
Newly engineered nanoparticles developed to treat drug-resistant fungal infections
They’re roughly the same size as a coronavirus particle, and 1000 times smaller than a human hair, yet newly engineered ...
Why researchers are vacuuming ‘environmental DNA’ from the sky
Scientists have been using environmental DNA (eDNA) for more than 10 years to measure biodiversity and discover new species, often ...
Gene drives to control plant pests show promise but technological and public acceptance hurdles loom
Arthropods crop pests are responsible for 20% of global annual crop losses, a figure predicted to increase in a changing ...
Inside the quest to develop second-generation vaccines, variant-proof boosters and a shot that works against future pandemics
Even as vaccine supplies outstrip demand in the United States, the scientific quest for coronavirus shots has scarcely eased. In ...
Children are the ‘final frontier’ for COVID shots, and many parents are resistant. But not these, and here’s why
Toddlers and babies as young as 6 months old are testing Covid-19 vaccines to help make sure they're safe for ...
Vertical farms inside restaurants? How hydroponics is creating a natural farming future — indoors
Based on cultivation techniques that do not require the use of soil and which generally have an excellent application even ...
Viewpoint: OMG! GMO! Killer ice cream? Here’s the latest in anti-biotechnology hysteria
If you're worried about never-ending wars, crippling national debt, poverty, disease, social unrest, or even really bad stomach aches, the ...
Brain fingerprinting: Microelectronics and medical imaging bring us closer to acheiving mind reading and banishing blindness
Coupled with powerful microelectronics, science’s understanding of the brain is opening the door to new ways of handling criminal investigations ...
‘We’re successful when our steaks are served at a diner in rural Kansas’: Can mushrooms replicate the taste and texture of animal meat?
While plenty of plant-based meat companies claim to replicate the taste of the real thing, industry leaders like Beyond Meat, ...
‘She is a force of nature’: Meet the professor trying to make bone marrow transplants safer
[Agnieszka Czechowicz] is now an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In her lab research, ...
How can we protect wild salmon from interbreeding with farmed salmon? CRISPR gene editing is a solution
Upon an otherwise unruly landscape of choppy sea and craggy peaks, the salmon farms that dot many of Norway’s remote ...
If you can’t see me you can’t bite me: CRISPR experiments target altering mosquitoes to make them blind to humans
For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing tool Crispr-Cas9 to render humans effectively invisible in the eyes of ...
Do we need a new COVID vaccine to fight new and potentially more lethal variants?
The rapid spread of the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has put more patients in hospital beds and led to reinstatements ...
AI ushers in new path towards sustainable, no-till farming: Robot weedkillers
Other than engine sounds, the robots are almost silent and each one can destroy 100,000 weeds an hour, according to ...
CRISPR opens the door to altering nature. What could go right — and wrong?
Gene editing today usually means making precise changes using CRISPR, a bacterial DNA-cutting system adopted by scientists. It works within ...
Freezer burn wastes food. Now scientists are developing bio-based solutions to prevent recrystallization
Open the freezer door and there, way in the back, may be an old carton of ice cream growing spikes ...
We might be living with COVID risks for years to come
There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, ...
Brain Computer Interface: How BCI implants can transform thoughts into spoken words
More than 15 years ago, a man who was only 20 years old had a massive stroke when a major ...
3,000 years: That’s how long it might take to hear back from our outreach to extraterrestrial civilizations
As a field, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence suffers from some rather significant constraints. Aside from the uncertainty involved (e.g., ...
Transitioning to a meatless, plant-based future is a win for the environment — but means major upheaval for farm and meatpacking workers
A largely plant-based future would be a win for livestock, 99 percent of which is raised in factory farms, and ...
What label should the FDA require on lab grown seafood?
Food companies, regulators, marketers, journalists and others should use the terms "cell-based" or "cell-cultured" when labeling and talking about seafood ...
Synthetic biology in space: Mushrooms could be used to build extraterrestrial habitats
In a new “astromycological” venture launched in conjunction with NASA, [Paul] Stamets and various research teams are studying how fungi ...
Viewpoint: Can parents select for healthier children? A new tool for predicting polygenic traits kicks off a fierce debate
Motherhood is rewarding, but pregnancy is risky. Pregnant women usually steer clear of environmental risks that can harm the child ...
How robots are filling in for bees and helping pollinate Japan’s apple orchards
According to the estimate of the Japanese government, the number of bee swarms in Japan has seen a 40% reduction ...
Synthetic foods: They sound unappetizing — but they could revolutionize agriculture
[Just five years ago, Upside Foods] developed a biological process to grow synthetic meat products by taking stem cells from ...
