Gene Editing to Treat Disease: A success story in sickle cell disease
A genetic editing technique has shown success in treating the genetic disorder sickle cell disease in humans.
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Our Cyborg Future: Brain-computer interfaces and their unique privacy challenges
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can translate a person’s brainwaves into action, but these devices are vulnerable to hacking.
Researchers create interspecies brain chimeras from mice and rats
In a first, two groups of researchers have created a chimeric mouse brain with rat cells, providing a new way to understand brain evolution.
This habitable zone exoplanet may have liquid water
Astronomers around the world do a double-take on the most promising potentially habitable planet.
A Potential Drug to Treat Acute Respiratory Distress Caused by Severe Influenza A Virus
Researchers have discovered a compound that could reduce lung injury caused by severe influenza A virus infection.
A New Way to Beat the Heat: Scientists Develop an 'Elastocaloric' Cooling Device
Many of us rely on air-conditioning, which has a high environmental cost. Now, scientists have developed a better way: elastocaloric cooling.
Anti-Aging Antibodies Rejuvenate the Immune System to Help Fight Pathogens
Depleting an aberrant cell population in the bone marrow could boost the immune system’s response to pathogens such as COVID and influenza.
Putting the Pedal to the Metal: Improving CAR-T Cell Therapy
Researchers have identified a key protein that is involved in the long-term success of immunotherapy for patients with blood cancers.
Move over Cheerios – gut microbes lower cholesterol just fine
Newly-found gut bacteria linked to reduced levels of the harmful cholesterol that contributes to cardiovascular disease.
Scientists discover genetic factor underlying childhood cancer risk in Hispanic-Americans
Researchers have uncovered a genetic variant that is associated with childhood leukemia disparities in Hispanic-Americans.