Rich Haridy
Understanding ego death: Psychedelics can be humbling for some people — but for others it inflates their egos. Why?
A commonly recounted experience with psychedelics is that it dissolves one’s ego, blurring the boundaries between ourselves and others ...
Bacon-flavored algae and spirulina salmon? Here’s how aquaculture might provide enough protein to satisfy humanity’s growing appetite
A new paper published in the journal Oceanography speculates future global food production problems could be solved by growing protein-dense microalgae in ...
Strange symptoms: Hair and libido loss linked to long COVID
A huge new study has offered the most robust investigation to date into the symptoms and prevalence of long COVID ...
Why apathy is often the first symptom of Alzheimer’s
Compelling new research from the Indiana University School of Medicine has homed in on a degenerative mechanism that could explain ...
Do artificial sweeteners fuel cancer? New data reignite the debate
A new study has reawakened a decades-old debate over the safety of artificial sweeteners, suggesting a small association can be ...
Can ‘remarkable’ mRNA technology used to develop Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines combat other diseases?
Harry Al-Wassiti, a bioengineer from Monash University, has been working with mRNA technology for several years, and he describes the ...
New evidence of e-cigarette dangers: Vapor liquid linked to chronic gut inflammation
It is still early days for research into the long-term effects of e-cigarette use. Cursory studies are discovering e-cigarettes can potentially cause some ...
Why does CRISPR randomly fail 15% of the time?
The CRISPR gene editing process is known to fail about 15 percent of the time. These random failures have until ...
Unable to gain weight: Mice kept thin by blocking fat-storing enzyme
A compelling study from a team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen has demonstrated a way to completely stop ...
‘Living tattoo’ made with 3D-printed bacteria responds to stimuli
A team at MIT has genetically modified bacteria cells and developed a new 3D printing technique to create a "living ...
FDA likely to approve hereditary blindness gene therapy
[A]nother gene therapy is on the cusp of approval, this time to treat a form of hereditary blindness. If given ...
Non-celiac gluten sensitivity may actually be caused by fructan
Although only one percent of the population are affected by celiac disease, gluten-free diets have become a major food trend ...
