Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation’s restaurant … Continue reading US Approves Chicken Made From Cultivated Cells, the Nation’s First ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: A biotechnology company selling a $949 blood test that it bills as a “first of its kind” to detect cancer said it incorrectly informed about 400 customers that they might have the disease. The Menlo Pa… Continue reading Health Firm ‘Grail’ Wrongly Told Hundreds of People They Might Have Cancer
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her 11-year prison sentence after being convicted of four counts of fraud. The BBC reports: She will serve her term in a minimum-security prison in Texas. Holmes reported to the federal facility in … Continue reading Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility C… Continue reading The First IVF Babies Conceived By a Robot Have Been Born
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Embryos made from stem cells — instead of a sperm and egg — have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When researchers put these “synthetic embryos” into the uteruses of ad… Continue reading Synthetic Embryos Have Been Implanted Into Monkey Wombs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of meat grown from cells, without… Continue reading Meatball From Long-Extinct Mammoth Created By Food Firm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared cultured “cultured chicken cell material” made by GOOD Meat as safe for use as human food. While the FDA said the lab-grown chicken was safe to eat, G… Continue reading FDA Clears Lab-Grown Chicken As Safe To Eat
MIT Technology Review has revealed two cases in which babies conceived with the three-parent baby technique have shown what scientists call “reversion.” “In both cases, the proportion of mitochondrial genes from the child’s mother has increased over ti… Continue reading Three-Parent Baby Technique Could Create Babies At Risk of Severe Disease
According to Reuters, Elon Musk’s medical device company, Neuralink, was denied permission last year to begin human trials of a revolutionary brain implant to treat intractable conditions such as paralysis and blindness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administ… Continue reading US Regulators Rejected Neuralink’s Bid To Test Brain Chips In Humans, Citing Safety Risks
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DevNull127 writes: Four U.S. agencies have concluded that the Covid-19 virus originated at the Wuhan market, the Wall Street Journal reports. The U.S. N… Continue reading Virologist Disputes WSJ Report on a Minority Opinion Suggesting Covid ‘Lab Leak’ Origin