These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu
The gene edit also helped limit the spread of the virus. Four ordinary chickens were placed in the same incubator with the gene-edited birds that had already been exposed to …
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A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years
Monkeys are often used in research as stand-ins for people because of their biological similarities. But Curtis anticipates that transplant outcomes for people will be even better, since the organs …
In Defense of the Rat
Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn’t just open the door and leave—rats would …
How to Make a Pig Heart Transplant Last in a Person
With any organ transplant, doctors are trying to balance how to prevent infections while tamping down the immune system. Without immunosuppressive drugs, the transplant organ will be rejected. But giving …
Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India
On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of the same family had been admitted to his hospital—Aster MIMS …
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
Using an unblemished femur from the same burial site as a control, his lab extracted degraded DNA present in the bone, sequenced it, and identified strings of nucleotides that resembled …
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Your Genome Sequenced
In comparison, whole-genome sequencing determines every single base pair of DNA, and is much more expensive as a result. If you printed out all 6.4 billion letters of your whole …
DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases
About 10 years ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon …
High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It
The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every …
Treatment for snoring saves lives from heart disease: Study
MILAN: According to a study, patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can lower their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by sleeping with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.People …