They found it buried in the muddy shores of the Potomac River more than three decades ago: a strange “sediment organism” that could do things nobody had ever seen before in bacteria.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering that advances in artificial intelligence and gene editing could accelerate those improvements exponentially in the years ahead.
Scientists have identified an enigmatic virus whose genome seems to be almost entirely new to science, populated by unfamiliar genes that have never before been documented in viral research.
An article by Ruth Williams published at thescientist.com
Seventeen volunteers in the Netherlands have agreed to host parasitic worms in their bodies for 12 weeks in order to help advance research toward a vaccine for schistosomiasis, a chronic disease that afflicts more than 200 million people a year, killing thousands, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
The world’s honey bees are facing an unprecedented crisis. Since the 1940s, the number of honey bee hives in the United States has dropped from 6 million to 2.5 million.
The UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (London, UK) has released a new research briefing on human germline genome editing outlining techniques, safety, current and future applications and legislation.
CRISPR genome editing has been used to make chickens resistant to a common virus.
A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists.
By offshoring its drug and medical supply manufacturing, the US has put patients and hospitals in a frighteningly precarious position.