Tag: Biology
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106,036 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant. 17 of them die each day. But what if we could give them pig organs? From the Seventeenth Century to Modern Science The first attempted xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human transplant, was done in 1667. Jean-Baptiste Denys gave sheep’s blood to a 15 year…
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“Can we rejuvenate an organism?” No one knows for sure, but Juan Carlos Belmonte is getting close. In a fascinating talk at the All-In Summit, Belmonte explains how he’s using cellular reprogramming to reverse aging in mice and, perhaps one day, us. Why We Age After age 40, the likelihood…
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What if you could ask the best scientists on earth any question you want, any time? New chatbots are making that a reality. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Consensus searches 200 million scholarly publications to answer questions on medicine, science, and even economics. Let’s give it a try! I…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! No one wants to get old. But how can we stop and even reverse aging? Perhaps a Dream Team of the world’s greatest scientists. And a whole lot of money. Well, that just became a reality. For those of us who follow venture capital, the news…
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Was the cure for cancer invented in a university, only to be shelved for a lack of funding? University labs are creating incredible drugs on a regular basis. Unfortunately, most will never get to the patients that need them so desperately. This is the conclusion of an intriguing book I…
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We wish to suggest a structure for the salt deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest. So begins the famous Nature paper by James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Their discovery revolutionized biology and won…
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Investors lost over $9 billion on Theranos, the diagnostics testing company run by Elizabeth Holmes that was exposed as a fraud. Worse yet, patients received inaccurate test results, imperilling their health. But what if asking one simple question could’ve prevented all this? In the book Editing Humanity, Keith Davies notes…
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