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The German government just proposed to make measles vaccinations mandatory for children and people who work at kindergartens and schools.
Health & Medicine

Germany Plans to Make Measles Vaccines Mandatory for All Children

Scientists are using CRISPR technology to develop new model organisms. But actually keeping the gene-hacked critters alive comes with new challenges.
Biology

Scientists Are Having Trouble Keeping Gene-Hacked Creatures Alive

The USDA has found gentically modified wheat growing in a field in Washington state — and it's not the first time the GMO plant has cropped up unexpectedly.
Science & Energy

GMO Wheat Escapes Lab, Grows in the Wild

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Science & Energy

A New Gene Engineering Method Could Allow Us to Grow Organs for Transplants

Science writer Philip Ball donated some arm flesh to a lab that grew a miniature brain out of his cells. It made him question how we define humanity.
Biology

A Lab Grew a “Mini Brain” From This Guy’s Cells. Then Things Got Weird.

The 2019-nCoV pandemic that began as a viral outbreak in Wuhan, China has rapidly spread to new countries. Here's how it progressed over time.
Developments

Here’s a Timeline of How China’s Viral Outbreak Spread Worldwide

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Advanced Transport

Allianz Wants to Tackle the Challenge of Creating Sustainable Urban Living

A fascinating new story looks at the growing market for mice that have been gene-edited to mimic human disease ranging from prostate cancer to diabetes.
Health & Medicine

These $17,000 Mice Are Gene-Edited to Mimic Human Diseases

British startup Arborea will test the ability of its "BioSolar Leaf" technology to pull pollution from the air through a newly announced pilot project.
Pollution

“BioSolar Leaf” Tech Will Pull Pollution from London Air

We’ll Soon Be Able to Grow Human Organs From Pig Organs
Biology

We’ll Soon Be Able to Grow Human Organs From Pig Organs

Siberian scientists conducted an autopsy of a 42,000-year-old foal of an extinct horse, and found that it's so well-preserved they may be able to clone it.
Biology

Scientists Plan to Clone Extinct Horse Using 42,000-Year-Old Blood

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People
Medical

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

The world's first lab-grown blood vessels have already yielded one new lead in the hunt for better diabetes treatments and more could be on the way.
Health & Medicine

We Can Now Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in a Lab

By getting them to absorb metallic nanomaterials, scientists figured out how to make cyborg plants that may be able to survive out in space.
Mars

Scientists Say New Cyborg Plants Could Someday Grow on Mars

A German pharma company patented a process in which genetically modified tequila bacterium produce a range of cannabinoids by just feeding on sugar.
Bacteria

Scientists Gene-Edited Tequila Bacteria to Make Cannabinoids

Evolutionary robotics could give rise to machines that program their offspring, so to speak, using their own code and programming.
Robotics

Scientists Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Reproduce, Evolve

A self-assembling network of silver nanowires responds to electrical signals in a similar way to how the brain stores memories.
Artificial Intelligence

Chemists Grew A “Synthetic Brain” That Stores Memories in Silver

WHO Says UN Should Reclassify Marijuana as Less Dangerous
Health & Medicine

WHO Says UN Should Reclassify Marijuana as Less Dangerous

In a new op-ed for scientific american, scientists argue that anti-vaxxers are such a danger to society that they shouldn't be allowed near others.
Health & Medicine

Scientists: Anti-Vaxxers Are the Moral Equivalent of Drunk Drivers

A panel of scientists just recommended to the Japanese government that CRISPR-edited foods should be declared safe to eat.
Food

Japan Poised to Declare CRISPR-Edited Foods Safe to Eat