BBC News website announced that the entire DNA sequence of a woman who lived to 115 has been pieced together by scientists. she was the oldest in the world at the time of her death, had the mind of someone decades younger and no signs of dementia, say Dutch experts. The woman, whose identity is [...]
Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells. Scientists used a combination of gene-editing technologies to corrected mutations in a patient’s own induced stem cells. The breakthrough could be a step forward toward reprogramming a [...]
New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory researchers have reprogrammed an adulthuman egg to an embryonic state and used it to create a self-reproducing embryonic stem cell line. The cell line they created doesn’t produce true clones containing perfect copies of the donor’s DNA, but the development does represent a step forward and answers some important questions about stem [...]
Sonia Arrison is a futurist and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for more than a decade. A Senior Fellow at the California-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and a columnist for TechNewsWorld, she is author of two previous books as well as numerous PRI studies on technology issues. A [...]
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday in Stockholm, divided half jointly between american Bruce Beutler and french scientist Jules Hoffmann for discoveries in the activation of innate immunity (receptor proteins that recognize bacteria and other microorganisms as they enter the body, and activate the first line of defense in the immune [...]
Stem cells – a step forward to complete regeneration? Stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types. This means that at the beginning, all cells were stem cells that became bone cells, skin, blood cells etc… Commonly, stem cells come from two main sources: a. [...]
Anti aging process could accelerated in the future Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide (through mitosis) and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells. In mammals, there are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells, which are isolated from [...]
Modern science will give us the possibility to choose our eye-color, our skin color, our messures etc… When we will decide to change something about our body, we could do that, because our body is made out of cells and each cell contains our DNA. DNA or Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains [...]
Memory cells created in laboratory Scientists have managed for the first time, to turn stem cells into a defined type of neurons involved in memory that are destroyed in Alzheimer’s disease. After six years of research, a team of scientists at the University of Chicago has managed to create in the laboratory cholinergic neurons derived [...]
Prosthetics of the Future Future of nanotechnology is also about prosthetics that replace our body-parts, like our hand, leg, even our eye. We cannot say right now how fast the nanorobotics will progress, but still, we can say that there is no turning back and “what we know, we know!”. All small steps forward are [...]
Are you using probiotic cap? Well, if you do, before your next dose you should find out that a study from McMaster University in Canada proved that gut bacteria might be able to alter your brain chemistry and change your mood and behavior. This research is based on earlier researches on gut bacteria at McMaster [...]
Some specialists have argued that humans have a moral imperative to make other species as intelligent as they are once they have the means. However, given those theories, one thing that should be absolutly clear is that even if there was a technique to create chimps, parrots or other species with human-level intelligence, we are [...]