In a step toward the wider use of gene editing, a treatment that uses Crispr successfully slashed high cholesterol levels in a small number of people. In a…
Read more A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by HalfIn 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three…
Read more A New Startup Wants to Edit Human EmbryosLook, there’s nothing quite like starting your day by pooping on a little paper hammock affixed to your toilet seat and then poking it a bunch of times…
Read more Jona Health’s Mail-Order Kit Helps You Decode Your MicrobiomeThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday labeling changes for the blood cancer therapy of Johnson & Johnson and its partner Legend Biotech to include a…
Read more FDA Adds Label Warning to J&J’s and Legend Biotech’s Cancer TherapyNew York Bio Connect, a new health and life sciences hub, has officially launched to serve as a central resource for New York’s life science community. Designed to…
Read more Life sciences advocates, economic development agencies launch centralized hub | Long Island Business NewsThe United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing pending applications by another person for the same…
Read more Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal IssuesOne of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US in 2013. That implant involved larger electrodes that…
Read more A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind PeopleOn Aug. 13, Middlesex Community College’s biotechnology program received a Pathmaker Validation from the Mass Life Sciences Center. Representatives from MLSC joined Middlesex President Phil Sisson, Provost Arlene…
Read more MCC’s biotechnology program receives Pathmaker Validation from Mass Life Sciences CenterIn 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester in England achieved a breakthrough when they isolated graphene for the first time. A flat form…
Read more An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person“It’s pretty exciting and freeing to keep my independence,” Mark says. “Some days can be more challenging, especially depending how I’m feeling, but the layout of the Amazon…
Read more This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their MindsSurgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman with kidney failure who also needed…
Read more Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It RemovedOn a recent trip to Giant Eagle, my local grocery store in Pittsburgh, I noticed something new in the fruit section: a single pineapple packaged in a pink…
Read more WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!Since it was first identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused some 40 million deaths worldwide. While medication known as pre-exposure prophylaxis,…
Read more There’s New Hope for an HIV VaccineAt a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by…
Read more China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer InterfacesOther than rejection of the organ, one of the most common transplant complications is infection. Doctors have to strike a balance when prescribing immunosuppressive drugs: too low a…
Read more He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It WorkingIn early experiments, Lagasse found that if he injected healthy liver cells into the lymph nodes of mice, the cells would flourish and form a second, smaller liver…
Read more This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of PeopleSlayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well, but Slayman started to go into kidney failure after years…
Read more A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First TimePhysicians and healthcare providers can attend the instructor course of TAI Chi now available at the conference. Dr AJ Farshchian held classes for Physicians. MIAMI, February 15, 2024…
Read more The American Academy of Stem Cell Physicians Recently Concluded Its Seventh Scientific Session in MiamiBYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — Scientists working on biological design should focus on the idiosyncrasies of biological systems over optimisation, according to new research. In a study, published…
Read more Endless biotechnological innovation requires a creative approachJohnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), a healthcare sector powerhouse with over 130 years of experience, has long dominated diverse sub-sectors within the industry. From groundbreaking pharmaceuticals like Remicade…
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