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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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

A huge planet beyond the solar system has an upper atmosphere hot enough to boil iron. Its infrared glow gave it away. An international team detected glowing water molecules in the stratosphere of the exoplanet WASP-121b, which is 900 light years from Earth. Water vapour in a planet’s atmosphere behaves in predictable ways depending...
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We’re STILL Not Saying It’s Aliens, But Tabby’s Star Is Getting Weirder

The light from KIC 8462852 faded again, and scientists have some new theories about what’s behind astronomy’s most mysterious star.  We’re Not Saying The Kepler Discovery Is Aliens, But… – https://youtu.be/8V-TxYyyLI4 Read More: Astronomers Have a New Explanation For The ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star https://www.sciencealert.com/astronom… “Strange dips in the light from Tabby’s...
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