July 14, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Infusion of the tiny, sausage-shaped structures helps to rejuvenate tissues deprived of blood. Researchers hope the technique can treat a variety of damaged organs. The pig’s heart was graying rapidly, so McCully decided to try it. He … Read More
July 11, 2025
(Christianity Today) – One has only to read the great pessimist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer—who wrote that “life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom”—to be tempted to join the transhumanist project. But whether the goal of … Read More
July 11, 2025
(Hastings Center) – A multisite research team has issued ethical and policy recommendations for first-in-human clinical trials involving the transplantation of pig kidneys into humans. The first trial has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and could … Read More
July 7, 2025
(The Guardian) – Scientists are just a few years from creating viable human sex cells in the lab, according to an internationally renowned pioneer of the field, who says the advance could open up biology-defying possibilities for reproduction. Speaking to … Read More
July 4, 2025
(Nature) – Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices. A deep brain device that allowed a man with no limbs to play computer games is one of an increasing number of … Read More
June 27, 2025
(NDTV) – The Synthetic Human Genome Project is being funded by the Wellcome Trust, which has donated Rs 117 crore (10 million pounds). Regarded as the building blocks of human life, DNA is made up of repeating units called nucleotides, … Read More
June 24, 2025
(Gizmodo) – In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call for a 10-year moratorium on using CRISPR and related technologies to pursue human heritable germline editing. The declaration … Read More
June 23, 2025
(New York Times) – Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes. The experimental treatment, called zimislecel and made … Read More
June 20, 2025
(Science) – Developing lenacapavir, the drug newly approved to protect against HIV for six months in one shot, took basic science, sophisticated chemistry, and perseverance The approval caps a tortuous, 2-decade-long scientific journey for Gilead Sciences, a pharma company specializing … Read More
June 16, 2025
(CNN) – A nonprofit led by Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former chief executive of 23andMe, won a bid to acquire the genetic testing company following its bankruptcy filing in March. Wojcicki’s California-based nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, will purchase 23andMe … Read More
June 13, 2025
(Nature) – The hearts started to beat in the pig–human hybrids, which survived for 21 days. Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for 21 days, and in that … Read More
June 12, 2025
(CNN) – A tiny creature with frilly gills, a polite smile and glowing green skin just gave scientists a major clue to solve one of biology’s biggest mysteries: limb regeneration. Aquatic salamanders called axolotls are known for their unusual ability … Read More
June 6, 2025
(Care) – Dr Philip Nitschke, inventor of the Sarco suicide pod, has unveiled plans for a controversial new device: an implantable ‘kill switch’ that would allow people diagnosed with dementia to end their lives at a later stage, regardless of … Read More
June 5, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Later this month, the Food and Drug Administration is widely expected to approve a groundbreaking twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV—a milestone in the decadeslong fight against a once-devastating disease. For Gilead Sciences GILD 1.21%increase; green up pointing triangle, the … Read More
June 5, 2025
(Economist) – Of all the medical challenges that scientists have faced, Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, has been one of the trickiest. Between 1995 and 2021 private money spent on Alzheimer’s research came to $42.5bn, but more than 140 … Read More
June 5, 2025
(MIT Tech Review) — Brian Armstrong, the billionaire CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, says he’s ready to fund a US startup focused on gene-editing human embryos. If he goes forward, it would be the first major commercial investment in … Read More
June 3, 2025
(The Washington Post) – They buzz, they bite, and they cause some of the deadliest diseases known to humanity. Mosquitos are perhaps the planet’s most universally reviled animals. If we could zap them off the face of the Earth, should … Read More
June 3, 2025
(Wired) – Brain-Computer Interface startup Paradromics today announced that surgeons successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a patient and safely removed it after about 10 minutes. It’s a step toward longer trials of the device, dubbed Connexus. It’s also … Read More
June 2, 2025
(Smithsonian Magazine) — Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular abnormalities in their early stages In trials in India, Siddarth Nandyala detected and diagnosed more than 40 patients … Read More
June 2, 2025
(The Guardian) — Toxic pesticide levels have been found in tampons at levels 40 times higher than the legal limit for drinking water. Traces of glyphosate, a pesticide linked to cancer, has been found at very high levels in menstrual … Read More
June 2, 2025
(Slate) — All the effort was for a microplastics blood test, the first designed to be taken at home. Testing human blood for microplastics is a relatively new thing. Until this home test came out, the process could be done … Read More
May 29, 2025
(Axios) – China is now setting the pace in life sciences R&D, conducting more clinical trials than the U.S. and licensing new discoveries to American companies. The big picture: China has become a linchpin in global drug development, the result … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TIME) – Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd. “We needed some way for … Read More
May 22, 2025
(New Scientist) – Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company’s chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolves The dire wolf is “the world’s … Read More
May 22, 2025
(Nature) – Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the first contact lenses to convey infrared vision — and the devices work even when people have their eyes … Read More
