Daniela Hernandez
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Video: Here’s why COVID mutant variants are spreading so fast
As highly transmissible coronavirus variants sweep across the world, scientists are racing to understand why these new versions of the ...
Reality dawning: COVID will alter how we live for years or decades to come
The ease with which the coronavirus spreads, the emergence of new strains and poor access to vaccines in large parts ...
Unraveling COVID’s corrosive persistence: Doctors struggle to understand why initially mild symptoms sometimes leave lingering scars on the mind and body
For many patients, including young ones who never required hospitalization, Covid-19 has a devastating second act. Many are dealing with ...
Brain implants on the cusp of reality help patients immobilized by ALS, strokes or spinal cord injuries
[B]rain activity is collected by sensors implanted in a blood vessel in [Phil] O’Keefe’s brain and relayed to a computer ...
How long will protective antibodies generated by a vaccine likely work?
Only a handful of vaccines generate lifetime immunity for most people, such as the ones for measles, a viral infection ...
Patient asymptomatic in first documented COVID reinfection
In a paper accepted on [August 24] by the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, scientists from the University of Hong Kong ...
Not just the lungs: Coronavirus also wreaks havoc on the brain
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases worldwide reaches 2 million, clinicians are realizing the disease doesn’t just ravage the ...
Are you an expert or novice? Brain scans can tell the difference
To gain new insight into how highly specialized workers learn skills or react to stressful situations, researchers are leveraging advanced ...
New gene-edited tomatoes stay firm longer, extending shelf life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an attempt to ...
A Facebook for sharing your genetic information?
Three years ago, biologist Bastian Greshake spit in a vial and sent it off to personal genomics company 23andMe for ...
IBM chip mimics brain, marks advancement in artificial intelligence
The human brain is the world's most sophisticated computer capable of learning new things on the fly, using very little ...
Cloud-based genomics: Will the Internet create GM super-oranges?
Farmers are hacking their operations with robots, sensors, drones, and good-old circuit boards, but that’s merely a first step. Thanks ...
Gene patents are sabotaging the future of medicine
The following is an excerpt. The business of DNA is undergoing a revolution. We can already get our genes scanned for ...
The era of genetics-based advertising is coming
The following is an excerpt. If you thought personalised advertising based on your Facebook status updates, Gmail content or online ...
Get ready for a genetics-based marketplace
A new platform will help consumers control what offers they get from retailers based on their genetic makeup ...
DNA number-crunchers use homegrown software
The following is an edited excerpt. Today, multiple startups — including DNAnexus and Spiral Genetics — are taking the genomics ...
Craig Venter’s vision to print life, generate vaccines
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine and inject it at home, contagion averted ...
