401 Results From "stem cell research"

A study shows that the coronavirus can directly attack and kill heart cells, potentially settling a longstanding scientific debate.
Viruses

Study: COVID-19 Can Kill Heart Cells

Scientists are attaching human brain stem cells to microchips in an attempt to make artifiical intelligence more powerful and efficient than before.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Weaving Human Brain Cells Into Microchips

A new study suggests that there's no way to slow down the process of aging, even if modern medicine helps us live longer than before.
Studies

Study: Sorry, Aging Is Unstoppable, You Vain, Youth-Hungry Idiots

Departed Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak is working on what appears to be a well-funded new brain interface venture called Science Corp.
Neuroscience and Brain

Departed Neuralink Co-Founder Locks Down $47 Million for Secretive Neuroscience Startup

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a gene therapy that was shown to reverse some aspects of aging and extend lifespans in mice.
Gene Editing

New Gene Therapy Reverses Aging in Mice

The Archdiocese of New Orleans just issued a dangerous statement calling the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine "morally compromised."
Viruses

Catholic Archdiocese Calls COVID Vaccine “Morally Compromised”

A team of researchers have managed to keep mice embryos alive inside an artificial womb for as long as day 12, half of the animal's gestation period.
Developments

Scientists Grew Mouse Embryos in an Artificial Womb

Because of bad weather here on Earth, a SpaceX Dragon that was supposed to head home from the International Space Station is hanging out in orbit.
Science & Energy

Bad Weather Leaves SpaceX Dragon Stuck at Space Station

Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.
Viruses

Severe COVID-19 Might Lead to Strange Growths Behind the Eyes

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.
RX and Medicine

MIT Scientists Making Key Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine

Blocking a single protein called 15-PGDH made old mice much stronger and healthier, as though they had been made younger as a result.
RX and Medicine

Blocking a Single Protein Makes Aging Mice Way Stronger and Healthier

Scientists grew stermatogonial stem cells — the precursors to sperm — in a lab for the first time, potentially unlocking new fertility treatments.
RX and Medicine

For the First Time, Scientists Grow Human Sperm Stem Cells in Lab

An experimental neural implant seems to restore both muscular control over and sensation in people's limbs, even when a spinal cord injury is in the way.
Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neural Implant Could Give Spinal Injury Patients Control Over Their Own Limbs Again

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Just Found Something That Happens Before Alzheimer’s Sets In

To study how early humans related to Neanderthals, a team of European scientists grew mini brains from human stem cells that contain Neanderthal DNA.
Science & Energy

Scientists Grow Petri Dish Mini-Brains With Neanderthal DNA

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.
Future Society

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

A team of researchers managed to create the most thoroughly-intermixed human-mouse chimera hybrids to date, thanks to a weird stem cell-manipulating trick.
Biology

Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids

A team of London-based scientists used the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR to genetically modify human embryos — but the results were not good.
Gene Editing

A Gene-Editing Experiment on Human Embryos Went Horribly Wrong

Special modified human stem cells were able to control blood sugar levels in a demonstration involving diabetic mice by secreting insulin.
Studies

Diabetic Mice “Cured Rapidly” Using Human Stem Cells