“Verve is developing one-time gene editing medicines that safely edit the adult human genome and mimic naturally-occurring cardioprotective variants to permanently knock out cholesterol-raising genes in the liver and treat coronary heart disease.” | learn more
“In the absence of a clinical laboratory “gold standard,” researchers are finding a high frequency of false negatives in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests.“ | learn more
“A new study has demonstrated how a form of deep red light therapy can help address age-related decline in vision. Hitting the retina with just the right wavelength of light was found to recharge its energy system in those over […]
“The question is whether the “illusion” part is generated in our brains or in the visual data our eyes are sending to our brains. Over the course of three experiments, the scientists say they believe the phenomenon occurs in each […]
“A new study, led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, … describes how bacteria in the gut can metabolize cholesterol at levels high enough to improve a person’s cardiac health.” | learn more
“Early life exposure to environmental stressors, including endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), can impact health later in life. Here, the authors show that neonatal EDC exposure in rats causes epigenetic reprogramming in the liver, which is transcriptionally silent until animals are […]
“Rather than swimming through the blood like other micro-robots, the new ones move by rolling along the walls of blood vessels, much like white blood cells do. The direction of this movement can be controlled from outside the body by […]
“A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, finds that these AI algorithms have serious instability issues. Small structural changes, such as the presence of a small tumour, may not be captured, while tiny, almost […]
Scientists have shown before that giving young blood to old animals has the, “rejuvenative effects of enhancing muscle repair, reducing liver adiposity and fibrosis, and increasing hippocampal neurogenesis.” In this UC Berkeley study, they tease apart exactly what about the […]
“[Y]ou have probably come across claims that Science is broken in some way or another, that we live in an era of scientific stagnation, or some horror stories about researchers spending their lives applying for grants and not doing research. […]