Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could b… Continue reading World’s Largest Vats For Growing ‘No-Kill’ Meat To Be Built In US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have created genetically edited tomatoes, each containing as much provitamin D3 — the precursor to vitamin D — as two eggs or a tablespoon of tuna. Outdoor field trials of the tomatoes… Continue reading Scientists Create Tomatoes Genetically Edited To Bolster Vitamin D Levels
The BBC reports on “the next generation of genetic modification technology” — which goes beyond simply introducing a “lab-tweaked gene” into an organism. Instead it introduces a “gene drive” — a lab-tweaked gene “that targets and removes a … Continue reading Scientists Research An Even More Powerful Technique for Genetically-Modifying Mosquitos
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Scientists have developed a blood test that can predict whether someone is at high risk of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or dying from one of these conditions within the next four years. Th… Continue reading New Blood Test Predicts Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke With Twice Previous Accuracy
“Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot designed to slither down human lungs into places that are difficult for medical professionals to reach,” reports the Washington Post.
The tool “could improve the detecti… Continue reading This Snakelike Robot Slithers Down Your Lungs and Could Spot Cancer
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: One of the first products made using a novel animal-free egg white is now available in the United States. The unique macarons are the first to be made with an egg white protein that comes from enginee… Continue reading First Chicken-Free Egg White Product Reaches US Markets
On Saturday CNBC published a remarkable headline. “Stem cells may finally offer a cure for Type 1 diabetes.”
There are 537 million people around the world living with diabetes. And that number is growing…. But over the past 20 years, significant adv… Continue reading CNBC: ‘Stem Cells May Finally Offer a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NewAtlas: A new kind of milk will soon hit US shelves but it isn’t some plant-based product designed to resemble dairy milk. Instead it is made from whey proteins produced by microflora engineered to spit out ex… Continue reading Animal-Free Dairy Milk Set To Finally Hit US Retail Shelves
New submitter blackprint writes: The City of Austin released a memo saying that Samsung released as much as 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid waste into a Northeast Austin creek over a period as long as 106 days. They confirmed the leak has stopped, but… Continue reading Samsung Spilled Up To 763K Gallons of Sulfuric Acid Waste Into Austin Tributary
After deliberating for more than 40 hours over six days, jurors in the Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial have found Holmes guilty on four of 11 charges of defrauding the company’s investors and patients. She was found not guilty on four counts. NPR repor… Continue reading Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty