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Video: ‘New humans’ — Combination of artificial intelligence, bionics, CRISPR and cloning could create next generation of humanity, says Siddhartha Mukherjee

Ian Bremmer, Siddhartha Mukherjee | 
Technologies like CRISPR gene editing, synthetic biology, bionics integrated with AI, and cloning will create "new humans," says Dr. Siddhartha ...
Backward slide for malaria: 16 million more cases in 2022 than before the pandemic

Backward slide for malaria: 16 million more cases in 2022 than before the pandemic

Lisa Schnirring | 
Malaria cases in 2022 exceeded the prepandemic level by 16 million cases, with several threats—including climate change—hampering progress ...
Jet lag and night shifts disturb our sleep cycles and molecular clocks. Could a drug one day reduce these effects?

Jet lag and night shifts disturb our sleep cycles and molecular clocks. Could a drug one day reduce these effects?

Jessica Hamzelou | 
The circadian clock sits in our brains keeps our bodies in rhythm and this helps control when we wake, eat, ...
Humans are born with a brain developed roughly equivalent to small primates, and then it grows quickly while animal growth stalls

Humans are born with brains roughly comparable to small primates — then humans have a brain development boom

Mike Lucibella | 
A new study challenges the belief that human newborns have significantly less developed brains than other primates ...
Viewpoint: I took the exa-cel treatment for sickle cell disease. My symptoms ‘virtually disappeared overnight’

Viewpoint: I took the exa-cel treatment for sickle cell disease. My symptoms ‘virtually disappeared overnight’

Jimi Olaghere | 
Exa-cel, the first CRISPR-based treatment to win approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, following the UK’s approval ...
Determining dementia risk: 21-question Brain Care Score predicts chances of dementia and stroke later in life

Determining dementia risk: 21-point Brain Care Score predicts chances of dementia and stroke later in life

Kristen Rogers | 
A new tool named the Brain Care Score, or BCS, may help you assess your risk of developing dementia or ...
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Size isn’t everything: Brain connections and neuron wiring contribute more to human intelligence than volume

Michael Marshall | 
Human brains are bigger than those of our primate relatives, but evidence from extinct human ancestors suggests brain size isn't ...
Could your dog live forever? Next wave of longevity drugs aim to extend pet lives

Extending dog lifespans? Next wave of longevity drugs aim to add years to pet lives

Emily Anthes | 
Scientists have been chasing after drugs that might stave off this heartbreak by extending the lives of our canine companions ...
Breathing on Mars: ‘Robot chemist’ powered by artificial intelligence could figure out how to create oxygen on other planets

Breathing on Mars: AI-powered ‘robot chemist’ could analyze materials on other planets and figure out how to create oxygen

Michael Lee | 
A robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence could solve the puzzle of providing oxygen to humans on Mars ...
How Casgevy came to be: How researchers found gene editing targets for newly-approved sickle cell drug

How Casgevy came to be: How researchers found gene editing targets for newly-approved sickle cell drug

Antonio Regalado | 
The world’s first commercial gene-editing treatment is set to start changing the lives of people with sickle-cell disease ...
Viewpoint—‘Following sensationalism’: How media distort science by influencing courts and regulators, and what should be done about it

Viewpoint: ‘Following sensationalism’ — How media distort science, influencing courts and regulators

Nathan Schachtman, Richard Williams | 
It’s time for scientific bodies and institutions to more forcefully weigh in when science is too far behind media and ...
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‘We’ve got miraculous therapies for ‘bubble boy disease’ that don’t fit in anyone’s business model’: Mainstream care elusive for most patients because of high costs

Carolyn Johnson | 
Hataałii Tiisyatonii “HT” Begay was born with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID, which meant he had virtually ...
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CRISPR moonshot: FDA approves first-ever US gene-edited based therapy, Casgevy, to treat sickle cell disease

Carly Kempler Pflaum | 
December 8 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, representing the first cell-based gene ...
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Rethinking the ‘little brain’: The cerebellum finally has its moment, recognized as a driver of higher human intelligence

Researchers are realizing that the 'little brain' or cerebellum expanded during evolution and contributes to the capacities unique to humans ...
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CRISPR is cheap, effective and easy to use. That’s why human germline editing scares even some proponents

John Lauerman | 
Crispr technology is based on a rudimentary immune system that Japanese scientists first noticed in bacteria three decades ago ...
Better than Ozempic? Lilly’s Mounjaro helps patients shed more pounds faster than rival weight loss drug, data show

Better than Ozempic? Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro helps patients shed more pounds faster than rival weight loss drug, data show

Nancy Lapid | 
Overweight or obese adults lost more weight and shed pounds faster using Mounjaro than those taking Ozempic ...
How to control negative emotions

‘Emotions are friends not foes’: Why we shouldn’t try to control negative emotions

Francine Russo | 
Our beliefs about emotions—whether we feel that they’re good or bad, controllable or uncontrollable—affect our life and relationships ...
Psychedelics could help veterans with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Breakthroughs and the dropping of taboos opening new treatment possibilities

Psychedelics could help veterans with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Breakthroughs and dropping of taboos opening new treatment possibilities

Mark Satter | 
Legislative proposals include studies of the effectiveness of using psychedelics to treat PTSD among active-duty servicemembers and veterans ...
The personalized precision medicine revolution is proceeding more slowly than hoped. Here’s why.

Personalized precision medicine revolution is proceeding more slowly than hoped. Here’s why

Paul McClure | 
The term 'personalized medicine' has gained traction, but what is it, does it help and are there concerns that need ...
Each dog has their own personality. What explains their unique temperaments?

Canine neuroscience: Exploring what shapes dog personalities

Anna Lamb | 
Why do dogs behave so differently, even within their own breeds? Neuroscientist unlocking secrets of canine brain ...
We’re headed into sniffle season. Which at-home remedies for stuffy noses work?

We’re headed into sniffle season. Which at-home remedies for stuffy noses work?

Marla Broadfoot | 
Snotty, stuffy noses are the hallmark of cold and flu season, but some medications and at-home remedies may offer relief ...
First on the list for de-extinction? The famed dodo

First on the list for de-extinction? The famed dodo

Tom Page | 
The dodo, a flightless bird once hunted to extinction, is to be re-introduced by genetically engineering fresh ones ...
Viewpoint: Skeptical take on newly-approved CRISPR sickle cell treatment tool

Viewpoint: Skeptical take on newly-approved CRISPR sickle cell treatment tool

Ned Pagliarulo, Shaun Lucas | 
A gene editing therapy developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics works exceptionally well, yet treatment may not be simple ...
Viewpoint: Liberal Center for Genetics and Society advances techno-pessimist argument against human germline gene editing

Viewpoint: Center for Genetics and Society advances ‘progressive’, ‘techno-pessimist’ argument against human germline editing

Pete Shanks | 
AI is a hot topic that some experts deeply steeped in the AI debate are warning about the social justice ...
Can alcoholism be inherited?

Can alcoholism be inherited?

Researchers found an overlapping association between alcohol abuse and psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia ...
USDA under pressure to liberalize its regulation of human gene-therapies and gene-editing so US doesn’t fall further behind other countries

USDA under pressure to liberalize regulation of human gene-therapies and gene-editing, so US doesn’t fall further behind other countries

Derrick Gingery | 
Worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and sponsors should consider the US for regulatory advice and clinical trials ...
Could yet another species of humans evolve? Yes, if we begin populating other planets

Could another species of humans evolve? Yes, if we begin populating other planets

Tom Hale | 
Along with Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of human have existed. Ultimately, just one species prevailed: Homo sapiens ...
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