A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be the First That Outwits Nature
It’s been grim news all around for COVID-19. Italy’s skyrocketing death toll has now risen above China’s. Countries are...
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Scientists Engineered Neurons to Make Electrically Conductive Materials
Electricity plays a surprisingly powerful role in our bodies. While most people are aware that it plays a crucial...
On the Front Lines of Developing a Test For the Coronavirus
“That escalated quickly!” is a common trope used in popular culture to describe when a situation gets out of...
DeepMind’s Protein Folding AI Is Going After Coronavirus
In late December last year, Dr. Li Wenliang began warning officials about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, but...
To Turbocharge Anti-Aging Treatment, Just Add… a Protein Found in Fruit Flies?
The hunt for the elixir of life is such a universal mythological trope that to talk about it in...
Huge $161 Million Investment Means Meat Without the Animal Is Here
In 1931, Winston Churchill made a bold prediction: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in...
Scientists Just Proved These Two Brain Networks Are Key to Consciousness
Consciousness is one of the greatest mysteries of the human species. Where and how does it originate? Why do...
Scientists Linked Artificial and Biological Neurons in a Network—and Amazingly, It Worked
Scientists have linked up two silicon-based artificial neurons with a biological one across multiple countries into a fully-functional network....
$100 Genome Sequencing Will Yield a Treasure Trove of Genetic Data—and Maybe a Dystopian Nightmare
What would the implications be if decoding your genes cost less than a pair of designer jeans? We might...
Gene Therapy Is Successfully Treating a Common Form of Inherited Blindness
K.L. always knew he might be completely blind before reaching adulthood. Even as a child he realized something was...
