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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 ...
Mustard greens genetically tweaked to be less bitter will be the first CRISPR edited food available in the US when they reach supermarkets this summer
A gene-editing startup wants to help you eat healthier salads. This month, North Carolina–based Pairwise is rolling out a new ...
Human age limit: Are supercentenarians simply statistical outliers?
For researcher Jean-Marie Robine, each supercentenarian is a crucial datapoint in the quest to answer a big question: Is there ...
Would you donate your DNA to solve crimes? Nonprofit DNA Justice Foundation aims to rewrite detective work
A nonprofit wants your DNA data to solve crimes: Privately run genealogy databases have become a crucial tool for police ...
A French startup has engineered houseplants that scrub toxins from the air. Could it make a difference?
Nestled in a jelly-like growing medium, it looks like a canapé—or, possibly, the future ...
As record-breaking drought persists, legal battle rages over approving GMO grain in Kenya
The record-breaking drought is forcing Kenya to confront a controversial topic: whether the country should grow genetically modified (GM) crops ...
CRISPR co-creator: 2023 sees mobilization of gene editing to develop crops that resist climate change, as world food demand rises
Crispr is being used experimentally to increase yield, reduce pesticide and water use, and protect against disease. The next space ...
CRISPR gene editing scientist who illegally manipulated embryos wants to cure genetic diseases. Should the scientific community trust him?
He Jiankui discusses his plans for finding cures for devastating genetic diseases. Should the scientific community trust him? ...
Single shot genetic cures are coming. Will insurance companies pay for these multi-million dollar therapies?
Some of Steven Pipe’s hemophilia patients consider themselves cured. In a trial Pipe led from 2018 to 2021, they received ...
We’re on the cusp of spellbinding advances in treating malaria and tuberculosis thanks to mRNA technology used in COVID vaccine breakthroughs
MRNA IS ONE of the first molecules of life. While identified six decades ago as the carrier of the blueprint ...
We haven’t approved a new type of antibiotic in nearly 40 years — and bacteria are taking advantage of this blind spot
Antimicrobials cost as much to develop as other drugs, but don’t earn the same returns. Congress could give drugmakers a ...
Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind reduce local populations by up to 96%, study shows
In the Brazilian city of Indaiatuba, an effort is underway to eliminate Aedes aegypti mosquitoes before they have a chance ...
Stopping bioterrorism: Here’s how new genetic sequencing can detect altered viruses and bacteria
A new, highly transmissible strain of influenza emerges. A pesticide-resistant insect decimates huge swaths of crops. A patient winds up ...
A CRISPR cure for HIV? Gene-editing technology may be able stop viral replication in its tracks and wipe out infections
In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to ...
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 ...
Circadian rhythm: How do our sleeping cycles affect how we experience pain?
In a recently published study, scientists led by Claude Gronfier at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre in France have finally shed ...
Conclusions drawn by many artificial intelligence studies cannot be replicated. Here’s why this is a concern
Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan and his PhD student Sayash Kapoor got suspicious last year when they discovered a strand of ...
‘Risks, pitfalls, and challenges’: Synchron’s brain-computer interfaces are on the horizon, but future embrace is murky
Thomas Oxley is the founder and CEO of Synchron, a company creating a brain-computer interface, or BCI. These devices work ...
Powering plants with solar panels instead of photosynthesis might increase crop efficiency. But are companies overhyping potential?
The researchers used solar panels to run a machine that converts carbon dioxide, electricity, and water into acetate—a molecule that ...
Gene-editing injections: A new way to tweak epigenetic expression of genes to treat alcohol addiction
While gene editing relies on changing the DNA code itself, epigenetic editing involves dialing the expression of individual genes up ...
Here’s how abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol work
Today mifepristone is often used in combination with another drug, misoprostol, and together the pair are more than 95 percent ...
Viewpoint: How ‘racial rankings’ based on genetics pollute science and inspire racism
In the aftermath of the massacre in Buffalo, New York, at the hands of a white supremacist terrorist, scientists can ...
Brain-recording earbuds? High-tech headphones record neural data — and could unlock the mysteries of the mind
After acting as the scanner-in-chief for the company that invented the eFit, [Konstantin] Borodin is now the lead ear spelunker ...
Why the US won’t spot the next big COVID wave until it’s too late
Lines on charts can tell you something about the state of the Covid pandemic in the United States. Deaths: declining, ...
Biofuels reconsidered: Do we grow too much corn in the United States?
The supposed benefit of biofuel is that, although it still releases carbon dioxide when it burns, that carbon was drawn ...
‘I have an interesting brain’: The genius woman with a missing temporal lobe
In early February 2016, after reading an article featuring a couple of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who ...
