401 Results From "stem cell research"

A Japanese scientist from the University of Tokyo just got permission from the government to create animal embryos that contain human cells, Nature reports.
Health & Medicine

Japanese Scientist Wants to Grow Human Organs In Animal Embryos

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are closer than ever to a cure for baldness, thanks to cloned stem cells and 3D-printed scaffolding that could let new hairs take root.
Health & Medicine

Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You’re Rich

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are growing the first human-monkey hybrid embryos in a Chinese laboratory, according to a new story in Spanish newspaper El País.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Reportedly Growing Human-Monkey Embryos in China

By Kristin Houser

Chinese researchers have found a way to create healthy mice pups using only genetic material from two moms — no dads required.
Science & Energy

These Healthy Mice Pups Have Two Moms and No Dads

By Kristin Houser

Researchers say they've cured 10 infants born with SCID-X1, also known as "bubble boy" disease, using an HIV-assisted gene therapy.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Gene-Edited HIV to Cure “Bubble Boy” Disease

By Kristin Houser

A new study figured out how young blood seems to revitalize older neurons. Two proteins from newborn mouse blood revitalized lab-grown human neurons.
Health & Medicine

Yeah, Young Blood Transfusions Do Seem to Fight Aging

By Dan Robitzski

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.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have discovered what they're calling the cancer "cell of origin," a type of stem cell that leads to the growth of all cancers.
Cancer

A Single “Cell of Origin” Might Trigger All Forms of Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have used Type 1 CRISPR-Cas3, which "shreds" DNA, in human cells for the first time, giving scientists a powerful new gene-editing tool.
DNA

Researchers Use CRISPR “Shredder” on Human DNA for First Time

By Kristin Houser

3D Printed Implants and Stem Cells Helped Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
3D Printing

3D Printed Implants and Stem Cells Helped Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

With CRISPR gene editing, scientists hope to be able to create human-pig hybrids that will let us grow and harvest life-saving human organs.
Health & Medicine

This Guy Is Trying to Grow Organs in Pig-Human Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are infecting mini-organs with COVID-19 to better understand how the virus infects and interacts with human organs.
Viruses

Mini-Organ Research Reveals What COVID-19 Does to the Body

By Dan Robitzski

Surgeons just used the first autonomous surgery robot, a self-guiding catheter that could navigate its way through a pig's heart.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

By Dan Robitzski

UK researchers are ready to launch a study in which they'll vibrate people's limbs in an attempt to prevent a decrease in bone density.
Health & Medicine

Vibrating Astronauts’ Legs Could Keep Their Bones Strong

By Kristin Houser

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 Kristin Houser

New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging
Health & Medicine

New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging

By Dan Robitzski

A combination of molecules could making repairing the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain injuries as easy as swallowing a pill.
Brain

New Drug Combo Could Repair the Brains of Alzheimer’s Patients

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from the University of Basel have found a way to transform cancer cells into fat using two FDA-approved drugs.
Cancer

New Therapy Forces Breast Cancer Cells to Turn Into Harmless Fat

By Kristin Houser

A pocket of researchers in Silicon Valley believe that people currently living can survive for 1,000 years. But others in the field remain skeptics.
Health & Medicine

A Scientist Thinks Someone Alive Today Will Live to be 1,000

By Dan Robitzski

Up to 20 percents of the cells in our lab-grown mini kidneys are actually brain and muscle cells, according to new research.
Brain

Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys Keep Spawning Rogue Brain Cells

By Kristin Houser

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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo