After spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station, American astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth in 2016—only to find that his DNA had changed.
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An organism that regenerates could allow us to heal humans
The gecko’s remarkable ability to regenerate its tail in the space of a month could help scientists figure out how to heal spine injuries in humans, and it’s all down to the regenerative ability of stem cells.
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Malware encoded into strand of DNA by biohackers
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease. But one group of biohackers has demonstrated how DNA can carry a less expected threat—one designed to infect not humans nor animals but computers.
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The code of life
Centuries ago we were writing on clay tablets.
In this century we will write the stuff of life.
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Mosquito wars – introducing one million non-biting sterile male mosquitoes weekly into the wild
Last October, we announced the Debug Project, an initiative at Verily to reduce the devastating global health impact that disease-carrying mosquitoes inflict on people around the world. Today, I’m happy to announce the launch of Debug Fresno, our first field study in the U.S. to test a potential mosquito control method using sterile insect technique in collaboration with MosquitoMate and Fresno County’s Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District (CMAD).
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Microsoft hopes to ‘solve’ cancer within 10 years by ‘reprogramming’ diseased cells
Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science to crack the code of diseased cells so they can be reprogrammed back to a healthy state.
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Three-parent baby technique produces world’s first baby
The world’s first three-parent baby has been born.
Scientists revealed the birth of a baby boy, now five months old, usingDNA from three parents.
Fertility experts hailed the breakthrough as “great news and a huge deal” for the future of reproduction.
But they expressed concern that it was only achieved because US scientists crossed the border to Mexico to take advantage of lax regulation.
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Google’s Ray Kurzweil: The Business Of Extending Human Life Going Into “High Gear”
The futurist says that we’re getting closer and closer to “reprogramming” the human body.
Over the last many centuries, human life expectancy has very gradually lengthened with improved health and medical technologies and research. In the next 20 years, we can expect our expected life spans to be extended at a far more rapid pace than in the past.
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