Futurism
Body parts from fruit? Skin grafts may use apples to grow human tissue
Biophysicist Andrew Pelling of University of Ottawa wants to [use apples to determine] the future of biomaterials and human tissue repair.... “What ...
Human rights and CRIPSR: Will gene editing be monopolized by the rich?
We are all subject to the genetic lottery. That’s how it’s always been, and for a while, we thought that was ...
For precision medicine to work, physicians must incorporate holistic health factors, like belief
[Editor's note: Dr. Sharon Bergquist is a clinician in the division of general medicine and geriatrics at Emory University. She also ...
Video: Mail-order CRISPR? Company aims to put gene-editing tool in more hands
Despite its controversy, CRISPR gene editing has taken the world by storm, revolutionizing the fields of medicine, bioengineering, and beyond ...
20 percent of cancer patients resistant to chemotherapy — tweaking gene expression could help
Approximately 20 percent of all cancers have a mutation that makes them incredibly resistant to chemotherapy – a gene called KRAS. KRAS-mutant ...
Curiosity about ideas, experiences may be related to higher cognitive ability
[An international team of 60 researchers], led by Todd Lencz from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, studied the genes ...
‘Brain on a chip’: In vitro model finds regional links to specific diseases, treatments
We have come a long way in our understanding of how the brain works, but the more we know about ...
Reprogramming stem cells into motor neurons could help patients with paralysis
[S]cientists developed a mechanism to directly reprogram stem cells into motor neurons. Cell reprogramming is a novel exploration in medical studies ...
Genetics could help teachers tailor learning to individual students
Something that becomes very clear to teachers as they spend time in classrooms is that different students have different learning ...
Cancer can emerge from changes to epigenome, not just gene mutations
Doctors’ ruling perspective on cancer has been that it is caused by a series of genetic changes. However, a team ...
Breakthrough synthetic nervous system performs “remarkably similar” to human system
In a breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have grown intestinal tissues with functional nerves in a laboratory setup using human ...
Bioartificial kidneys may soon improve treatment of patients with renal failure
Dutch researchers Dimitrios Stamatialis of the University of Twente, Roos Masereeuw from the University of Utrecht, and their teams have ...
Manipulating DNA to conduct electricity could lead to faster, more powerful computers
The ability to use DNA as a construction material, capable of holding scaffolds of molecules and atoms was one huge ...
Designer bacteria: Genetically modified pills are a radical new way to treat rare stomach ailments
Designer bacteria are organisms that have been genetically modified to include a new function to make it do something it ...
Unapproved DNA drug therapy could reduce breast cancer and leukemia tumors
Promising data has revealed a new treatment for breast cancer and leukemia. It works by attacking cancer cells’ ability to repair ...
Autism gene? Rare tumor helps build map of how disorder works
The genetics surrounding autism has been the focus of many researchers’ investigations. MIT scientists recently reversed symptoms of autism through gene ...
Snipping at HIV’s genome with CRISPR may introduce mutations that help virus resist attack
[I]t seems that CRISPR itself may introduce mutations that help HIV resist attack; however, the team behind the work thinks that ...
CRISPR-Cas9 gene scissors can cut most mutations linked to cancer
A group of researchers from Dresden’s National Center for Tumor Disease (NCT)...and the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)...have ...
Stem cells injected into brain of Parkinson’s patient for first time
Doctors from the Royal Melbourne Hospital successfully injected stem cells onto the brain of a 64-year old Parkinson’s Disease patient ...
Infographic: Can modern biotechnology help you live forever?
Immortality, Fountain of Youth... Both are popular tropes repeated in popular science fiction and fantasy literature and movies. It is an idea ...
