by Leroy Hurt | Mar 17, 2013 | Issues.Ethics, Sectors.SciTech.Bio
Via Business Insider: at a National Geographic sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why, and ethics of doing so. They called it...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 17, 2013 | Issues.Ethics, Sectors.SciTech.Bio
Via Business Insider: at a National Geographic sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why, and ethics of doing so. They called it...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 16, 2013 | Disciplines.Research, Issues.Chimera, Sectors.SciTech.Bio
Via NPR: They injected some human glial cells into the brains of newborn mice. The mice grew up, and so did the human glial cells. The cells spread through the mouse brain, integrating perfectly with mouse neurons and, in some areas, outnumbering their mouse...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 16, 2013 | Disciplines.Research, Issues.Chimera, Sectors.SciTech.Bio
Via NPR: They injected some human glial cells into the brains of newborn mice. The mice grew up, and so did the human glial cells. The cells spread through the mouse brain, integrating perfectly with mouse neurons and, in some areas, outnumbering their mouse...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 24, 2012 | Sectors.SciTech.Bio
Via The Independent: A GM [genetically modified] salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America’s powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 24, 2012 | Sectors.SciTech.Bio
Via The Independent: A GM [genetically modified] salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America’s powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed...
