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Pet pharmacy Mixlab has developed a digital platform enabling veterinarians to prescribe medications and have them delivered — sometimes on the same day — to pet parents. Continue reading Mixlab raises $20M to provide purrfect pharmacy experience for pet parents
“Thanks to a breakthrough in RNA manipulation, crop scientists have developed new potato and rice varieties with higher yields and increased drought tolerance,” reports UPI:
By inserting a gene responsible for production of a protein called FTO, scien… Continue reading RNA Breakthrough Creates High-Yield, Drought-Tolerant Rice, Potatoes
USA Today reports:
Companies like Moderna and Pfizer’s partner BioNTech, whose names are familiar from COVID-19 vaccines, are using mRNA to spur cancer patients’ bodies to make vaccines that will — hopefully — prevent recurrences and treatm… Continue reading mRNA Companies are Now Testing Cancer-Fighting Vaccines
Automation is extending into every aspect of how organizations get work done, and today comes news of a startup that is building tools for one industry in particular: life sciences. Artificial, which has built a software platform for laboratories to assist with, or in some cases fully automate, research and development work, has raised $21.5 […] Continue reading Artificial raises $21M led by Microsoft’s M12 for a lab automation platform aimed at life sciences R&D
Implantable miniaturized medical devices that wirelessly transmit data “are transforming healthcare and improving the quality of life for millions of people,” writes Columbia University, noting the devices are “widely used to monitor and map biological… Continue reading Researchers Build Tiny Wireless, Injectable Chips, Visible Only Under a Microscope
CNN recently reported on “a batch” of new studies published Wednesday — with one quantifying how much immunity improves after the second dose, and others showing how well coronavirus vaccines work against new variants of the virus:
The first nat… Continue reading New Studies Show Covid-19 Vaccines’ Effectiveness Against Variants
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The world’s biggest jeweller, Pandora, says it will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds. Concerns about the environment and working practices in the min… Continue reading Pandora Says Laboratory-Made Diamonds Are Forever
According to The Byte, the co-founder of brain implant startup Neuralink, Max Hodak, announced he’s leaving the company. From the report: Hodak, who started the ultra-ambitious venture with Elon Musk and had until recently served as its president, didn… Continue reading Co-Founder of Brain Implant Startup Neuralink Leaves the Company
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes:
The New York Times tells the story of Hungarian-born Dr. Kariko, whose father was a butcher and who growing up had never met a scientist — but knew they wanted to be one. Despite earning a Ph.D. at H… Continue reading How a Researcher ‘Clinging To the Fringes of Academia’ Helped Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine
“Scientists have demonstrated the first human use of a wireless brain-computer interface, a potential breakthrough for people with paralysis,” reports The Next Web (in a story shared by Slashdot reader Hmmmmmm):
While traditional BCIs are tethered to … Continue reading Scientists Connect Human Brain To Computer Wirelessly For First Time Ever