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We’re a step closer to seeing a live woolly mammoth walking the Earth for the first time in 4,000 years. Colossal Biosciences, a company dedicated to the controversial-but-unquestionably-cool goal of resurrecting extinct species, has now announced a major breakthrough in creating elephant stem cells.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Wooly mammoth, Bioscience, Bioengineering, Genetic
A gel of tiny keratin spheres has been found to promote hair follicle growth. Given that our bodies naturally produce keratin, the research highlights the potential application of using keratin microspheres as a safe and effective hair-growth treatment.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Hair, Baldness, Nanomedicine, University of Tsukuba, Skin, Age-Related, Genetics
The weak gravitational pull on a particle just half the mass of a grain of sand has been measured for the first time. This most precise measurement of its kind is a breakthrough towards the quantum realm and a potential Theory of Everything.Continue ReadingCategory: Physics, ScienceTags: Gravity, Quantum Gravity, Quantum, Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics, University of Southampton
In what many of us would consider a true public service to one of the world's best food groups, scientists have flicked the switch on a mechanism that causes cold-stored potatoes to produce the carcinogen acrylamide. Growing these genetically tinkered potatoes could eradicate known cancer risks associated with darkened chips, making them much healthier regardless of processing.Continue ReadingCat
A simple, cheap pretreatment promises to radically cut the price of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from waste wood biomass – potentially making it cost-competitive with fossil-based jet fuel, while cutting down emissions by up to 80%.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Sustainable, Aviation, Fuel, Jet fuel, Climate Solutions: Aviation, UC Riverside
Months of trial and error, as well as adverse side effects, in an effort to find the right antidepressant may soon be a thing of the past for those with major depressive disorder, with a novel artificial intelligence model able to determine a drug's efficacy on an individual within just one week.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: amsterdam-university-medical-center, Depression, Medic
A climbing vine known as the “Seven Steps of Death” holds within its toxic growth something scientists believe to be a powerful anti-obesity compound, celastrol. For the first time, this hotly touted compound has been produced simply and safely, using normal yeast as an ideal ‘surrogate' host.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: University of Copenhagen, Obesity, Weight Loss, Biotechno
Researchers have taken a big step forward in the quest to regenerate the pancreatic beta-cells damaged by type 1 diabetes. Using FDA-approved drugs usually given to patients with rare cancers, they reprogrammed pancreatic cells to produce and secrete insulin in response to glucose. The discovery could mean that, one day, diabetics won't need to take multiple daily insulin injections.Continue Read
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a synthetic pathway that can capture CO2 from the air more efficiently than in nature, and shown how to implement it into living bacteria. The technique could help make biofuels and other products in a sustainable way.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Carbon Dioxide, Bacteria, Molecules, Biofuel, Bioengineering, Max Planck Instit
Peptide therapeutics have revolutionized the treatment of disease, but their characteristics typically restrict them to administration by injection. Now, researchers have succeeded in creating an oral peptide, which has the potential to usher in a new era in drug development.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: peptide, Disease, Drug delivery, EPFL


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