Scientists Have Reversed Brain Damage in a 2-Year-Old Girl Who Drowned in a Swimming Pool

Researchers in the US have reported what they believe is a first-of-its-kind reversal of brain damage, after treating a drowned and resuscitated toddler with a combination of oxygen therapies. The little girl, whose heart didn’t beat on her own for 2 hours after drowning, showed deep grey matter injury and cerebral atrophy...
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Running Would Have Broken an Adult Tyrannosaurus Rex’s Legs

Science ruins dinosaurs again. Jurassic Park’s most iconic scenes should have run a little slower, based on new research suggesting our favourite dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, couldn’t manage more than a walk. Calculating the top speed of the tyrant lizard king seems to be an obsession for paleontologists, who have debated over...
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World’s Youngest Double Hand Transplant Declared a Success

Two years after 10 year-old Zion Harvey received a pair of donor hands in a world-first transplant operation, doctors have published on 18 months of the young patient’s progress. Describing the transplant as an overall success, their report also details the risks and challenges involved in what is a revolution still...
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The Reason We’ve Never Found Intelligent Life Might be Because We Are Already Going Extinct

The Fermi Paradox The Milky Way Galaxy alone is home to between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, and each is potentially orbited by planets. There are probably at least 2 trillion galaxies like ours in the observable universe, each one populated by trillions of planets orbiting hundreds of billions...
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9 Amazing Things We’ve Achieved in 2017 With Help From CRISPR

There’s a good reason why the powerful CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool has earned the moniker of being ‘revolutionary’. The relatively easy technique for cutting and pasting genes has exploded onto the scientific scene, and over the past years there’s been no shortage of spectacular results delivered thanks to this amazing...
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Diet Drinks Really Are Associated With Weight Gain, Says New Research

Over the past decade, Americans have soured on artificial sweeteners. Once heralded as sweet substitutes for sugar without as many belt-busting calories, people couldn’t get enough sucralose and aspartame. But recently, people have started looking at the molecules with increasing suspicion, amid studies that linked them to increased belly fat – and...
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Your Body Is Designed to Attack a New Organ, Now We Know Why

Scientists think they’ve found the molecular basis for organ transplant rejection. Now that we know its cause, could we prevent its effect?
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A Vaccine For Type 1 Diabetes Begins Human Trials in 2018

A prototype vaccine, decades in the making, that could prevent type 1 diabetes in children is ready to start clinical trials in 2018. It’s not a cure, and it won’t eliminate the disease altogether, but the vaccine is expected to provide immunity against a virus that has been found to...
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Monthly injections could replace daily pills for people with HIV

Daily pills may become a thing of the past for people who have HIV. A long-acting injection has been found to work just as well or better than standard pill-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) at preventing the virus from bouncing back and becoming infectious again. At the end of a two-year trial...
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The Moon Is Seriously Loaded With Water, More Than We Ever Expected

Amazing news for lunar colonists! There’s way more water locked inside the Moon than we previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite data. This unexpected finding about our planet’s grey companion is giving scientists new insights into how the Moon formed and what its internal structure is like....
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A Child Born With HIV Has Been Virus-Free For Almost 9 Years Without Drugs

The existence of modern antiretroviral drugs means HIV can be effectively held at bay, but cases of total remission are incredibly rare. Now, doctors have a new one to report. A nine-year-old South African child who was diagnosed with HIV shortly after her birth in 2007 has now been in remission for...
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Optimistic Nihilism

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Scientists Have Used CRISPR to Edit a Human Embryo in The US For The First Time

Researchers in Portland, Oregon have, for the first time, edited a human embryo in the US. This work adds to the promise of CRISPR, and it stands as an important step toward the birth of the first genetically modified humans. By now, most of us know what CRISPR gene editing...
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Two Babies Have Been Cancer-Free After Receiving Treatment Created With Gene Editing

Cancer continues to be one of the major diseases that plagues humanity. Around the world, approximately 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The prevalence of cancer is due, in part, to the absence of a universal cure for all forms of the disease. While various treatments...
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Astronomers may have found an exomoon, and Hubble is going to check

The first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star — may have been spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope. But surprisingly, exomoons in general may be rare, at least around planets close to their stars. Alex Teachey and David Kipping of Columbia...
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Elon Musk Says SpaceX’s First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Lift Off in November

SpaceX’s new megarocket, the massive Falcon Heavy, will make its launch debut in November, according to the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk.  In Twitter and Instagram statements late Thursday (July 27), Musk announced the fall target for the Falcon Heavy’s maiden flight. “Falcon Heavy maiden launch this November,” Musk wrote on...
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NASA Seeks Information on Developing Deep Space Gateway Module

NASA is taking the next small step in the development of a proposed Deep Space Gateway in cislunar space by requesting information about one of its core modules. A request for information (RFI), released by NASA July 17, seeks information from industry regarding their capabilities to build a Power and Propulsion Element (PPE),...
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Scientists Want to Insert Bionic Sperm Into Women’s Vaginas (Video)

Researchers are equipping sperm with tiny iron suits to turn them into cancer-fighting robots. Wait, what? How Will Nanotechnology Revolutionize Medicine? – https://youtu.be/_wQxCjCxCiE  Read More: Physicians Unveil the World’s First Colonoscopy Robot https://www.seeker.com/tech/robotics/…  “Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a system for conducting a standard colonoscopy procedure that uses an internal...
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Half Our Body’s Atoms Could Have Come From Outside The Galaxy

We are all made of stars. New research suggests up to half the matter in the Milky Way – including the atoms that make up all of us – could have come from outside our own galaxy, much more than scientists previously thought. That’s based on supercomputer simulations that...
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Gene editing of human embryos gets rid of a mutation that causes heart failure

For the first time in the United States, researchers have used gene editing to repair a mutation in human embryos. Molecular scissors known as CRISPR/Cas9 corrected a gene defect that can lead to heart failure. The gene editor fixed the mutation in about 72 percent of tested embryos, researchers report August 2...
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