In a first, humans have received blood infusions including red blood cells grown in a lab from stem cells. The treatments were part of a clinical trial to see if the manufactured cells are safe, how long they last, and whether they create side effects.
Elderly cells in our bodies stop functioning but live on after a fashion, malfunctioning, causing inflammation, and emitting waste and other damaging chemicals into the bloodstream.
Research consistently shows that the percentage of carbon in our air is increasing and scientists agree that we need to reduce it.
Silicon has been at the heart of solar electric panels for 40 years. That dominance may be ending now that perovskite has evolved to become a practical alternative.
For the first time, scientists have been able to put a close count on the number of invisible plastic particles that are in a bottle of water.
Northvolt, a company in Stockholm, Sweden, has invented a battery for electric vehicles that uses no critical minerals and instead is based on salt.
MYC is an odd protein. While most proteins have clearly defined, reliable shapes, MYC is amorphous.
Technicians at Australia’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems are putting the finishing touches on DeepSouth, the first supercomputer engineered to mimic an entire, functioning human brain. They expect to be ready to turn it on in April.
After recording animals’ brain activity as they died, researchers at the Paris Brain Institute were able, for the first time, to describe in detail the sequence of events that ends the brain’s life.
Depression afflicts 300 million people worldwide and almost 20 million in the U.S., according to the World Health Organization. The worst cases resist counseling and drug therapy, often leading to suicide.