AvatarRich Sprague Jr.AvatarAvatarHow Two Young Scientists Built A $250 Million Business Using Yeast To Clean Up WastewaterForbes - Alex KnappHouston-based Solugen is making cheaper, more effective industrial chemicals to help scrub everything from pools and hot tubs to oil and gas companies’ wastewater. Up next: fertilizers. A long-standing poker game with a group of University of Texas Southwestern medical students in Dallas brought …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.AvatarAvatarThis Company Wants to Rewrite the Future of Genetic DiseaseWIRED - Megan MolteniTessera Therapeutics is developing a new class of gene editors capable of precisely plugging in long stretches of DNA—something that Crispr can’t …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.StoryboardThe Biggest Science Moments of 2020 (So Far) AvatarCurated byMashableWe're halfway through the year and, well, 2020 has been... a lot to handle. From the ongoing pandemic to mysterious zombie fires, the past six months have been riddled with huge science news. It hasn't all been negative, however (looking at you, SpaceX). Here are the biggest science moments of 2020 (so far).
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTiny Biotech Skyrockets To A Record High On Promising Alzheimer's Newsinvestors.com - ALLISON GATLINInmune Bio (INMB) stock skyrocketed to a record high Tuesday after the biotech company unveiled promising results for its Alzheimer's …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoImaging breakthrough pinpoints exact location of chronic painverified_publishernewatlas.com - By Rich HaridyTwo medical imaging breakthroughs have been presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting. The …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHuman X chromosome completely sequenced for the first timeverified_publishernewatlas.com - By Michael IrvingAs close as we’ve gotten to sequencing the entire human genome, there are still a few gaps. But now geneticists have plugged a major one in a …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.AvatarAvatarInsects are declining rapidly - here's why that needs to changeverified_publisherWorld Economic Forum - Michael SamwaysInsects are fundamental to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems. They permeate all aspects of these ecosystems, chewing and pooing, …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoScientists: Salamander DNA Could Regenerate Human Body Partsverified_publisherfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski"It's hard to find a body part they can't regenerate: the limbs, the tail, the spinal cord, the eye, and in some species, the lens, even half of …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoFor the first time, Allen Institute records the activity of a rare, mysterious kind of brain cellgeekwire.com - Alan Boyle• The cells were recovered from living tissue that was removed from the brain of a woman in her 60s in order to gain access to a tumor. The tissue …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.AvatarAvatar50-Year Chemistry Mystery Solved by Wild New Carbon Ringverified_publisherGizmodo - Ryan F. MandelbaumSome precision chemistry performed atop a slice of table salt has given researchers unprecedented views of a controversial form of carbon. Scientists …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBucking the trendspacetelescope.org - information@eso.orgThis luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this latter moniker indicates, the galaxy was listed in the famous catalogue …
AvatarRich Sprague Jr.AvatarAvatarFor The First Time, DNA Has Been Edited With CRISPR in Spaceverified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle StarrHumans may not be able to burp properly in space, but we can now edit a genome. For the first time, astronauts aboard the International Space Station …