Tag: jul 13 2021

People can carry versions of genes that promote disease, also variations that promote good health.   An international team of 70 scientists from Mexico, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S. has found a crucial example of the latter. The group has identified a genetic variant that guards against obesity, a condition affecting almost one in every...

Austrian solar company Fronius is building a prototype of tomorrow’s refinery – not a maze of pipes carrying petroleum fluids and gases from tank to tank, but a plant that makes “green” hydrogen on-site using only solar energy and water. Hydrogen is establishing itself as a niche fuel in the future’s energy mix, especially in...

For the first time, bioscientists have cured a genetic defect with an injection. The defective gene spawns a rare illness called transthyretin amyloidosis, in which the liver makes a malformed protein that accumulates in the heart, eventually causing the heart to stop. In its first test, the one-time injection halted almost all production of the...

A fossilized skull found and hidden away in China during the late 1930s has ignited debate among archeologists.  The skull has a brain case as big as modern humans, but also huge eye sockets, heavy brow ridges, and an enormous molar.  When the skull was recently delivered to scientists, those who first examined it named...