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‘Suicide pod’ used for the first time to assist a woman in dying.
The world’s first assisted suicide pod wraps around the human body like a space capsule, tilting gently toward the sky ...
Brain-tracking headphones can improve focus but they raise privacy concerns
Activity trackers have come a long way. No longer mere step-counters, they can monitor your heart rate, blood oxygen level, and ...
Enhanced creativity and improved focus: The rise of mushroom enhanced beverages is waking up public interest
Startup bros, alt-health gurus, and baristas have been trying to reinvent coffee for years. We’ve had bulletproof coffee, turmeric lattes, CBD coffee, ...
Alexa, read my mind: Brain implant in development for paralyzed test patients can surf the internet and manage emails
Synchron is one of several companies, including Elon Musk’s Neuralink, aiming to commercialize [brain-computer interface, or BCI's]. Researchers have been studying ...
A food of the future may already be here: The heat-resilient jackfruit variety breadfruit can survive erratic temperatures and hurricanes
Food systems across island nations in the Caribbean and Pacific are particularly vulnerable, being hit hard by a combination of ...
Cloud seeding nanomaterials: Desert countries are trying to wring rain out of wisps of clouds. How are they doing?
In a gold-trimmed command center on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, scientists are seeking to wring moisture from desert skies ...
‘Million dollar question’: Can advancements in ‘AI science’ create ‘AI scientists’
As amazing as today’s AI programs can be, they are limited by their need to consume human-generated training data. If ...
A Constitutional battle looms in the meat industry’s efforts to convince states to ban lab-grown meat
Florida’s ban on cultivated meat is being challenged in federal court in a lawsuit that was filed [August 12]. The case ...
The Atlantic ocean might collapse from climate change. How long do we have to find a solution?
A gigantic, weather-defining current system could be headed to collapse. How much time might we have left to save it? ...
Once high-flying start up Beyond Meat crashed in the US market. Could Europe offer a reset?
The plant-based meat industry is in a bad place. Sales in the US fell last year as the pandemic-era enthusiasm for vegan burgers ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR roadblocks? The ethical issues that could slow the global embrace of gene editing in farming
Researchers are exploring how advancements in gene technology can improve everything from food security to public health ...
Bayer partners with gene-edited food start-up Pairwise to bring nutritionally-enhanced, less bitter mustard greens to a wider market
Last year, startup Pairwise started selling the first food in the US made with Crispr technology: a new type of mustard ...
Pink pineapples? Tobacco and tangerine genes help make this juicy fruit more antioxidant-packed
At a time when orange cauliflower and white strawberries are now common sights in American grocery stores, a non-yellow pineapple ...
How long can you expect to keep the weight off after you stop taking Ozempic or Wegovy?
Research shows that Wegovy users receiving weekly injections can keep the weight off for up to four years ...
Orchid babies: Is this embryo scanning fertility startup furthering eugenics or ‘protecting future people from future suffering?’
God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have ...
Deep water living: Top-secret story of how British researchers experimented on themselves and found the key to surviving underwater — helping make D-Day a success
Geneticists John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and Helen Spurway’s goal was to see how long she could breathe the oxygen before ...
Eat what you want while staying healthy? Here’s how scientists are working to transform the sugar that you eat into fiber
We all know that too much sugar is bad for us. It can lead to weight gain, obesity, type 2 ...
Drug-free Alzheimer’s treatment: Headset and glasses combo that pulses with light and sound developed to combat cognitive decline
An experimental device developed by Cognito Therapeutics seeks to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients using light and sound ...
CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna on how gene editing can tackle antibiotic resistance crisis
Understanding how CRISPR could be used to tackle antibiotic resistance, we need to understand how that resistance arises in the ...
Want to sample lab-grown meat? Too late — experimental tastings at premier restaurants around the world are on pause. Here’s why, and what the future holds
July 2023 was a landmark moment for the cultivated meat industry. For the first time, meat brewed directly from chicken ...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink implanted in a human, who is recovering well, billionaire tweets
Elon Musk said on the social media platform X on January 29 that the first human patient has received a brain implant developed ...
‘Cell-based meat grows like a tumor’: A new ad campaign targeting cultivated meat industry criticized as ‘deceptive and unscientific’
A new public information campaign against cultivated—or “lab-grown”—meat is being run by a group with close links to a controversial ...
Viewpoint: Fake meat doesn’t taste anything like the real thing. Pilot project putting pig genes in soybeans hopes to change the status quo
Paladini is the CEO of Moolec Science, a molecular farming firm that uses crops to grow animal proteins. The idea is ...
CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna: ‘I think many of us will experience CRISPR in the agricultural world before we experience it clinically’
It’s been a monumental year for Crispr, the molecular tool scientists use to edit genetic material. ...
Glow-in-the-dark houseplants: Bioluminescent flowers made using mushroom genes should be available by next spring
The genetically engineered plants produce a neon green hue, thanks to the addition of DNA from a type of bioluminescent ...
Investigation: ‘Everything is made by hand’ — Lab grown meat startup Upside Foods presents high-tech facade, but its ‘futuristic factory’ is a lie
“We’re starting to show, from day one, what this whole industry is about,” Upside Foods cofounder and CEO Uma Valeti ...
Elon Musk says no monkeys died after Neuralink implant tests — but new information suggests a dozen monkeys were euthanized
Fresh allegations of potential securities fraud have been leveled at Elon Musk over statements he recently made regarding the deaths ...
How gene therapy could eventually snip out diseases in the womb
Recent advances in lab animals may bring medicine closer to achieving it—but this field is still in its infancy ...
