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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A small biotech company claims it has used a technology called reprogramming to rejuvenate old mice and extend their lives, a result suggesting that one day older people could have their b… Continue reading Biotech Startup Says Mice Live Longer After Genetic Reprogramming
“Wheat now provides 20% of the calories consumed by humans every day,” writes the Guardian. Unfortunately, “Thanks to human-induced global heating, our planet faces a future of increasingly severe heat waves, droughts and wildfires that could devastate… Continue reading How a ‘Holy Grail’ Wheat Gene Discovery Could Keep Feeding a Warming Planet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Former Theranos chief operating officer and president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison Wednesday for fraud, after the unraveling of the blood-testing juggernaut prompted cr… Continue reading Former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani Sentenced To Nearly 13 Years In Prison
For the first time, America’s Food and Drug Administration has “approved a treatment that can delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes,” reports ABC News:
Teplizumab, a monoclonal antibody that will be marketed under the brand name Tzield from pharmaceutica… Continue reading FDA Approves a Treatment that Delays Onset of Type 1 Diabetes
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday in a federal court to 135 months, more than 11 years in prison following her conviction on four counts of criminal fraud. The court found she deceived investors, including News Corp.’s Rupert Murdo… Continue reading Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced To More Than 11 Years In Prison
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The Queensland, Australia police have used DNA phenotyping for the first time ever in hopes of leading to a breakthrough for a 1982 murder. The department partnered with a U.S.-based company called … Continue reading Police Use DNA Phenotyping To Limit Pool of Suspects To 15,000
Long-time Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from the Boston Globe’s health-news site STAT:
The scientist flicked on a laser, filling the rat’s brain with blue light. The rodent, true to its past two weeks of training, scampered across its glass bo… Continue reading Rats With (Part) Human Brains
Emily Mullin writes via Wired: The human genome is made of more than 6 billion letters, and each person has a unique configuration of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts — the molecular building blocks that make up DNA. Determining the sequence of all those letters us… Continue reading The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
Citing McDonald’s shelved meat-free burger trial and a 70% dip in Beyond Meat’s stock, The Guardian suggests plant-based meats may not interest Americans as much as investors thought. From the report: Getting meat eaters in the US to adopt plant-based … Continue reading Is Plant-Based Meat Fizzling In the US?
Intellia Therapeutics reported encouraging early-stage study results for its Crispr gene-editing treatments, the latest sign that the pathbreaking technology could result in commercially available drugs in the coming years. The Wall Street Journal repo… Continue reading Crispr Gene-Editing Drugs Show Promise In Preliminary Study