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Why gene editing could slingshot cell-based meat to economic viability

Rupendra Brahambhatt | ZME Science | 
A shocking report from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that cultivated meat could reduce emissions by 96 percent. However, currently, the ...
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What caused the Habsburg royal family’s jaw deformity? Blame inbreeding

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
Today, the Habsburgs are all but forgotten from mainstream public consciousness, apart from one notable feature: the famous Habsburg Jaw ...
Rice paddies in the desert? How China is creating productive farmland and growing ‘seawater rice' using heat-tolerant biotech crops

Rice paddies in the desert? How China is creating productive farmland and growing ‘seawater rice’ using heat-tolerant biotech crops

Alexandru Micu | ZME Science | 
In a bid to finally ensure that nobody ever needs to go hungry in China again, researchers there have been ...
How chewing may have shaped human evolution

How chewing may have shaped human evolution

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
About 10% of the calories consumed over the course of the day are expended on digesting, absorbing, metabolizing, and eliminating ...
Challenging decades of demonization, LSD appears to improve human cognition

Challenging decades of demonization, LSD appears to improve human cognition

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
Researchers grew tiny brain tissue in their lab, which they exposed to solutions containing the powerful psychedelic drug LSD. Under ...
Ant colonies function like giant human brains

Ant colonies function like giant human brains

Alexandru Micu | ZME Science | 
Ants combine sensory information about their environment with parameters of their colony to arrive at a group response. Most interestingly ...
If Artificial Intelligence bots reflect the biases of their creators, will some turn out to be racist?

If Artificial Intelligence bots reflect the biases of their creators, will some turn out to be racist?

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
In a new study, a robot operating on CLIP was asked to sort blocks with human faces on them and ...
Love organic sweet Ruby Red grapefruits? Did you know it’s one of thousands of plants developed by shooting gamma rays at seeds?

Love organic sweet Ruby Red grapefruits? Did you know it’s one of thousands of plants developed by shooting gamma rays at seeds?

Michelle Petersen | ZME Science | 
You may be amazed to hear that some of the ‘natural’ foodstuffs you eat today may have also originated from ...
Can chocolate really kill dogs?

Can chocolate really kill dogs?

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
Unlike cats, which lack the ability to taste sweetness, dogs find chocolate just as appealing as humans. But while the ...
Evolution doesn’t stop: Hundreds of new traits have developed in humans in recent centuries

Evolution doesn’t stop: Hundreds of new traits have developed in humans in recent centuries

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
A new study from Europe has identified 755 traits that have changed in the past 2-3,000 years of human evolution ...
Kenyan scientists deploy CRISPR to protect bananas from diseases threatening to wipe out the world’s most popular variety

Kenyan scientists deploy CRISPR to protect bananas from diseases threatening to wipe out the world’s most popular variety

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
All the cultivated banana varieties are susceptible to diseases — and Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is particularly problematic. BXW is ...
A parasite is targeting bananas crops around the world — but African scientists are using CRISPR to stop it

A parasite is targeting bananas crops around the world — but African scientists are using CRISPR to stop it

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
All the cultivated banana varieties are susceptible to diseases — and Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is particularly problematic. BXW is ...
Will artificial wombs usher in a new era of gender equality?

Will artificial wombs usher in a new era of gender equality?

Michelle Petersen | ZME Science | 
Imagine a world where it’s possible to produce children without placing any burden on women — an empowered society where ...
The US military has polluted 25 million acres of prairie grass-filled land used for target practice. Now there is a GMO solution to detoxify it

The US military has polluted 25 million acres of prairie grass-filled land used for target practice. Now there is a GMO solution to detoxify it

Alexandru Micu | ZME Science | 
Genetically modified (GM) switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) can be used to purge soils of RDX residues, according to new research. RDX ...
Worried that GMO seeds are bred in a lab? They’re not as unnatural as you think. 1 in 20 plants are naturally transgenic

Worried that GMO seeds are bred in a lab? They’re not as unnatural as you think. 1 in 20 plants are naturally transgenic

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
Genetic modification is a process that sometimes happens naturally at the hands of bacteria, a new study concludes. Dozens of ...
‘Scorching ethical debate’: Designer babies are already here. The future looks even more revolutionary — and contentious

‘Scorching ethical debate’: Designer babies are already here. The future looks even more revolutionary — and contentious

ZME Science | 
In one sense, genetically modifying a child with particular traits is already done on a fairly large scale. Couples with ...
How dangerous is a lack of sleep?

How dangerous is a lack of sleep?

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
Whether sleep deprivation can kill is somewhat debatable. That’s because people who forgo sleep for extended periods of time may ...
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Thank India and Pakistan for dairy. They’ve been producing milk and cheese since 2500 BC

Alexandru Micu | ZME Science | 
The lands that make up modern-day Pakistan and India have been producing dairy for almost five thousand years now, according ...
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Everything you should know about colony collapse disorder and ‘disappearing’ bee populations

ZME Science | 
During the winter of 2006-2007, beekeepers around the country began reporting unusually high losses of their hives. Between 30 percent ...
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UK experiencing ‘widespread’ decline of insect pollinators, new study claims

Alexandru Micu | ZME Science | 
Great Britain is in great trouble....it’s running out of pollinators. The Center for Ecology & Hydrology measured the presence of ...
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‘Rice 2.0’: GMO grain could neutralize HIV virus before it does any harm

Alexandru Micu | ZME Science | 
An international team of researchers .... plans to fight HIV using only cereal; namely, rice. In a new paper, they ...
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Viewpoint: Humans have been ‘genetically modifying’ food for thousands of years

Tibu Puiu | ZME Science | 
Genes are bits of DNA which determine all sorts of traits and characteristics in any organism, from size to what ...
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How CRISPR gene editing is revolutionizing the world–and why we need to cautious about it

Emily Folk | ZME Science | 
Until recently, gene editing used to be relegated to science fiction novels and movies. The idea of being able to ...
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Xenotransplantation: Pig organ transplants into humans could be achieved as soon as 2019 in China

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
Chinese scientists are now desperately seeking government approval to launch a clinical trial for xenotransplantation. The goal is to have ...

Scientists cut HIV from animal cells using CRISPR gene editing

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the first time ...

How do genes evolve?

Rich Feldenberg | ZME Science | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Just as whole organisms ...

Consumers opposition to GMOs based mostly on “intuition” and not science

Tibi Puiu | ZME Science | 
Approximately 88 percent of U.S. scientists agree that GMOs are safe to eat, but this position is only shared by 37 percent of laymen ...

Newly discovered organism may bridge evolutionary gap between simple and complex cells

Mihai Andrei | ZME Science | 
The discovery of a new microorganism may help bridge the knowledge gap between simple and complex cellular organisms, also shedding ...
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