Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
Computer-Designed Organisms
January 14th, 2020Via: GitHub: Thus, we here present a method that designs completely biological machines from the ground up: computers automatically design new machines in simulation, and the best designs are then built by combining together different biological tissues. This suggests others may use this approach to design a variety of living machines to safely deliver drugs […]
Invisible Ink Embeds Immunization Records Into a Child’s Skin, “The Team Eventually Wants to Inject Sensors”
December 22nd, 2019Via: Scientific American: Keeping track of vaccinations remains a major challenge in the developing world, and even in many developed countries, paperwork gets lost, and parents forget whether their child is up to date. Now a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers has developed a novel way to address this problem: embedding the record […]
Chinese Scientists Create Monkey-Pig Chimeras
December 7th, 2019Via: New Scientist: Pig-primate chimeras have been born live for the first time but died within a week. The two piglets, created by a team in China, looked normal although a small proportion of their cells were derived from cynomolgus monkeys. “This is the first report of full-term pig-monkey chimeras,” says Tang Hai at the […]
China Gene-Edited Baby Experiment ‘May Have Created Unintended Mutations’
December 5th, 2019Via: Guardian: The gene editing performed on Chinese twins to immunise them against HIV may have failed and created unintended mutations, scientists have said after the original research was made public for the first time. Excerpts from the manuscript were released by the MIT Technology Review to show how Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui ignored ethical […]
Merck’s Insurers Treat Ransomware Takedown as Act of War
December 4th, 2019Schadenfreude? Maybe a little. Ok, a lot. Via: Bloomberg: Merck did what any of us would do when facing a disaster: It turned to its insurers. After all, through its property policies, the company was covered—after a $150 million deductible—to the tune of $1.75 billion for catastrophic risks including the destruction of computer data, coding, […]
India: Rampaging Monkeys Will Be Tracked Using Microsoft Facial Recognition AI So Worst Offenders Can Be Sterilized
December 2nd, 2019Via: Daily Mail: Rampaging monkeys will be tracked using Microsoft face recognition technology so the worst offenders can be sterilised after causing chaos across India. The booming primate population has reached crisis levels in recent years with spates of attacks on humans, including babies being killed by the animals. Researchers at the Indraprastha Institute of […]
Bacteria in Contaminated Walmart Pork Resistant to Multiple Antibiotics
November 30th, 2019Via: Newsweek: Testing has revealed the presence of bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics in pork products sold at Walmart stores in the eastern U.S., according to a report. Research conducted by non-profit World Animal Protection (WAP) identified several strains of bacteria in the meat, 80 percent of which were resistant to at least one antibiotic. […]
Millennials Seeing Health Decline Faster Than Gen X
November 20th, 2019More vaccines. More profits generated from the victims seeking treatments from the people who poisoned them in the first place. Mission accomplished. Via: Yahoo Finance: The declining health of the millennial generation could have a serious impact on the U.S. health care system, according to experts. “Millennials are seeing their health decline faster than the […]
Neural Correlates of the DMT Experience Assessed with Multivariate EEG
November 20th, 2019Via: Nature: N, N, Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a naturally-occurring serotonergic psychedelic capable of producing experiences that, in intensity, surpass those associated with standard doses of most orally administered psychedelics and indeed most other categories of psychoactive drugs. The subjective effects of intravenous DMT have a rapid onset and are characterized by unusually vivid visual imagery […]
‘Insect Apocalypse’ Poses Risk to All Life on Earth, Conservationists Warn
November 20th, 2019Via: Guardian: The planet is at the start of a sixth mass extinction in its history, with huge losses already reported in larger animals that are easier to study. But insects are by far the most varied and abundant animals, outweighing humanity by 17 times. Insect population collapses have been reported in Germany and Puerto […]
