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March 29, 2023

Bacterial ‘Nanosyringe’ Could Deliver Gene Therapy to Human Cells

(Scientific American) – In a paper published today in Nature, researchers report refashioning Photorhabdus’s syringe—called a contractile injection system—so that it can attach to human cells and inject large proteins into them. The work could provide a way to deliver … Read More

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March 29, 2023

Your Brain May Not Be Private Much Longer

(Vox) – Some of these technologies can offer very valuable help to people who need it. Brain-computer interfaces, for example, are already helping some paralyzed people. But neurotechnology can also seriously threaten privacy and freedom of thought. In China, the … Read More

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March 27, 2023

Musk’s Brain Implant Company in Search of Human Trials Partner

(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has approached one of the biggest U.S. neurosurgery centers as a potential clinical trials partner as it prepares to test its devices on humans once regulators allow for it, according to six … Read More

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March 24, 2023

These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too.

(New York Times) – After medical instruments called duodenoscopes sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks a few years ago, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care facilities to switch to models with disposable components less likely to carry … Read More

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March 23, 2023

The Personalized Stem Cells That Could One Day Treat Parkinson’s and Heart Failure

(Wall Street Journal) – Researchers are hoping that they can grow a patient’s own iPS cells into an array of healthy cells to treat diseases that now have no cure. Among them, a team at the National Institutes of Health … Read More

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March 22, 2023

A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition–and Landed in Big Trouble

(Wired) – Zvenyach’s rejection of face recognition, detailed in a report this month by the Office of the Inspector General of the General Services Administration, the agency that houses Login[dot]gov, saw a government official draw a line in the sand in … Read More

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March 21, 2023

The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun

(Wired) – Our world is populated by hundreds of thousands of cyborgs. Some are Parkinson’s patients, who can shut off their tremors by activating metal electrodes implanted deep within their brains. Others—albeit far fewer—are completely paralyzed people who can move … Read More

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March 16, 2023

How Stem Cells Make a Human Brain

(Nature) – In a technical “tour de force”, researchers have analysed multiple traits of individual cells to pinpoint those that give rise to crucial components of the human brain. The analysis, published on 16 March in Cell1, uses a combination … Read More

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March 15, 2023

Scientists Create Mice with Cells from Two Males for First Time

(Medical Xpress) – For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males. This raises the distant possibility of using the same technique for people—although experts caution that very few mouse embryos developed into live mouse pups and … Read More

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March 14, 2023

This Tiny Chip Is Being Used to Develop a Tooth-Mounted Sensor That Can Read Your Spit

(The Verge) – Miniaturizing tech is a perpetual challenge for wearable makers. The smaller the device, the better it is for wearability. The thing is, that usually comes at the expense of battery life. However, Silicon Labs is hoping its … Read More

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