September 9, 2024
(USA Today via Yahoo! News) – Doritos are a revered snack for many. Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent. (Read … Read More
September 3, 2024
(NBC News) – Four people have received hearts or kidneys from pigs. Some of their relatives recount a roller coaster of hope and uncertainty. Three other patients have followed in Bennett Sr.’s footsteps and received pig organs, most recently a … Read More
September 2, 2024
(New Scientist) – Stem cells made in the lab may one day aid cancer treatment by reducing our reliance on donors Human blood stem cells have been made in a laboratory for the first time, which could significantly improve how … Read More
August 29, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most prosthetics are static, cumbersome, and hard to move. Now a new neural interface developed by MIT researchers and … Read More
August 28, 2024
(The Verge) – The Stelo is unique in that it’s one of three FDA-cleared over-the-counter [Continuous Glucose Monitors]. (The other two are from Abbott.) Typically, CGMs have been used by Type 1 diabetics — those who produce little to no … Read More
August 27, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The longevity scene is having a moment, thanks to a combination of scientific advances, public interest, and an unprecedented level of investment. A few key areas of research suggest that we might be able to push … Read More
August 26, 2024
(ABC News) – As the world experiences more record high temperatures, employers are exploring wearable technologies to keep workers safe. New devices collect biometric data to estimate core body temperature – an elevated one is a symptom of heat exhaustion … Read More
August 26, 2024
(Axios) – Biosecurity experts are calling on governments to set new guardrails in an effort to limit the risks posed by advanced AI models being applied to biology. Why it matters: AI models trained on genetic sequences have double-edged potential … Read More
August 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – In March, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink introduced its first human trial participant, a quadriplegic who showed the world how he could control a computer cursor with just his thoughts. On Wednesday, the company said … Read More
August 22, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Futurists who write about the destiny of humankind have imagined all sorts of changes. We’ll all be given auxiliary chromosomes loaded with genetic goodies, or maybe we’ll march through life as a member of a pod … Read More
August 19, 2024
(Undark) – In a June essay in The New England Journal of Medicine, Hendriks and a co-author, Christine Grady, outlined some of the thorny ethical questions related to brain research: What is the best way to protect the long-term interests … Read More
August 19, 2024
(New York Times) – In a new frontier for deep brain stimulation, researchers used A.I. to develop individualized algorithms, which helped a skateboarder and other patients with Parkinson’s disease. In the study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature … Read More
August 16, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan … Read More
August 16, 2024
(The Conversation) – I’m a medical anthropologist and bioethicist who studies the values and experiences driving prenatal gene therapy developments, including genome editing. Human prenatal genome editing has not happened yet – as far as we know. Prenatal genome editing … Read More
August 15, 2024
(The Atlantic) – As artificial limbs become more advanced, branding is becoming almost inescapable. Bionic (or myoelectric) limbs, which are operated by muscle and nerve impulses to more closely mimic the movements and operation of a real limb, have evolved … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Reuters) – A man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who had lost his ability to speak has been able to communicate with a Blackrock Neurotech text-to-speech brain implant, researchers said in one of two new studies showing the promise of … Read More
August 14, 2024
(STAT News) – STAT spoke with Mariska Vansteensel, a neuroscientist at University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands and president of the international BCI Society, about the field and about a new study that she and her colleagues just published … Read More
August 8, 2024
(New York Times) – After promising results in monkeys, scientists plan to test the new treatment in a few people with H.I.V. Scientists have developed a new weapon against H.I.V.: a molecular mimic that invades a cell and steals essential … Read More
August 6, 2024
(Ars Technica) – The physician-scientist had just mastered a new chromosome-staining technique in a year-long sabbatical at Oxford. But it was in the dining room of her Chicago home where she made the discovery that would dramatically alter the course … Read More
July 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Medical tests using small amounts of blood are being rolled out, achieving what the Silicon Valley startup couldn’t The rise and fall of Theranos—the Silicon Valley startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but ended dissolved, … Read More
July 29, 2024
(Axios) — Data to train AI models increasingly comes from other AI models in the form of synthetic data, which can fill in chatbots’ knowledge gaps but also destabilize them. (Read More)
July 26, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a … Read More
July 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted … Read More
July 15, 2024
(New York Magazine) – His brain tumor was a hopeless case. Then an experimental medicine made it melt away. The day before, Choi and Maus had treated their first patient in a clinical trial for an aggressive brain cancer called … Read More
July 10, 2024
(New York Times) – Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said. The patient, Lisa Pisano, was critically ill, suffering from … Read More
