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With just a sample of fluid surrounding a baby in the womb, researchers can make mini organs to test out potential medical treatments
Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb—opening new area of ...
Modern humans co-existed with at least seven now extinct hominid ancestors, and in many cases integrated their DNA
Ancient DNA technology has revolutionized the way we study human history and has quickly taken off, with a constant stream ...
‘It’s just hard to be profitable’: Indoor farming is a booming industry — so why are so many farms failing?
Eden Green Technology is one of the latest crop of indoor farming companies seeking their fortunes with green factories meant ...
Fact checking lab-grown meat rejectionists: No, animal cells used to make cultivated meat do not cause cancer
Meat grown in labs is made using cells taken from animals, but those cells are not cancerous and there are many ...
Birth control pill approved for over-the-counter sale with no age restriction, available early next year
Federal regulators on [July 13] approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill in a landmark decision that will soon ...
Viewpoint: Food upcycling — Maybe the key to food sustainability isn’t growing more crops, but cutting back food waste
[The Salt and Straw] ice cream chain is among those at the forefront of the upcycling movement, the process of ...
A handful of patients inherited an early-onset Alzheimer’s gene — but never got the disease. Can they provide clues to preventing dementia?
Now scientists are on the lookout for even more Alzheimer’s escapees — people who may have simply assumed they didn’t ...
Gene therapy delivered directly to the brain treats extremely rare disease in children
When Rylae-Ann Poulin was a year old, she didn’t crawl or babble like other kids her age. A rare genetic ...
From 2,000 to 330,000: Monarch butterfly count soars in California since 2020 low — but still far below millions in the 1980s
The population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has rebounded for a second year in a row ...
Treating diseases in the womb: In medical first, doctors treat Pompe disease before birth
A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she ...
‘We are out on the far edge of experimentation’: Lone volunteer in Duchenne muscular dystrophy CRISPR gene editing study dies
The lone volunteer in a unique study involving a gene-editing technique has died, and those behind the trial are now ...
‘Public wasn’t consulted’? Kenya lifts decade-old ban on GMO crops challenged by Greenpeace, other activist groups
Food security, consumer rights and biodiversity groups are protesting Kenya’s reversal of a ban on genetically modified foods, saying the public wasn’t ...
Fact check: Associated Press debunks social media claims that GMO corn can cause cancer
Social media users in recent days have falsely claimed genetically modified corn isn’t safe because it’s been found to cause ...
Can the viral spread of monkeypox be stopped in the US?
The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said July 28, despite rising case numbers and so ...
Will other sports follow swimming’s ban on transgender women?
Bans on transgender women in international swimming and rugby this week opened the door for track and field to consider ...
Federal appeals court rules EPA must reconsider safety of Bayer’s glyphosate weedkiller under Endangered Species Act
A federal appeals court on [June 17] rejected a Trump administration finding that the active ingredient in the weed killer ...
Crimes of the Future: David Cronenberg movie ‘imagines a world in which humans are evolving and mutating and growing new organs regularly’
Pain is a essentially a thing of the past for some in David Cronenberg’s “ Crimes of the Future,” a ...
Pancreatic cancer cure? Reprogrammed cells tame disease that’s almost always fatal
In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged ...
‘Not persuasive’: FDA says Amylyx experimental drug for ALS Lou Gherig’s disease has ‘only modest’ effect
Federal health regulators issued a negative review [March 28] of a closely watched experimental drug for the debilitating illness known ...
CRISPR beef approved for sale after FDA finds no safety concerns
U.S. regulators on [March 7] cleared the way for the sale of beef from gene-edited cattle in coming years after ...
How DNA analysis uncovered the illegal elephant ivory trade
As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of ...
End game for COVID? Predicting a quick end to the pandemic is premature, WHO chief warns
The World Health Organization’s director-general on [January 24] warned that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and ...
Fourth vaccine shows limited efficacy against Omicron
An Israeli hospital on [January 17] said preliminary research indicates a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine provides only limited ...
No morning espresso for the unvaccinated French, as new law sets sharp restrictions on restaurants, concerts and sporting events
France’s parliament approved a law [January 16] that will exclude unvaccinated people from all restaurants, sports arenas and other venues, ...
Olympics threat? Omicron and other COVID variants surge across China on cusp of Winter Games
Throughout the pandemic, authorities have been especially protective of Beijing since it is the seat of government and home to ...
When can we declare the COVID pandemic officially over?
Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be ...
Viewpoint: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has used COVID to make anti-vaccine disinformation mainstream
While many nonprofits and businesses have struggled during the pandemic, Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group has thrived. An investigation by The Associated ...
Understanding threats from COVID variants: Delta vs Omicron
As the omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are ...