EDEN: The AI system that learns from a million species to design new treatments
The model allows for the precise and complex modification of cells and molecules to cure diseases
The era of scarcity: Climate change threatens the future of food
Laura Caorsi|
Food shortages are worsening, and although a more cooperative social and scientific vision offers hope, if the crisis is comprehensive and global, the measures to counter it must be as well
Hans Clevers, biomedical scientist: ‘If I had colon cancer, I could grow my own tumor, test it with drugs, and see which one eliminates it’
Organoids, which the professor is researching, are transforming drug experimentation
The REPAIRome: A catalog of DNA scars sheds light on a path to fighting cancer resistance
Researchers say the catalog has already led to the identification of genetic mechanisms involved in kidney cancer and will help develop personalized treatments in oncology
Roger Davis, biologist: ‘If you eat a poor diet, it activates stress throughout your entire body: muscles, liver, fat… everywhere’
The esteemed scientist, one of the world’s leading experts in molecular biology, explains how disruptions at the cellular level influence health
Antonio Pérez: ‘We are working on the next generation of off-the-shelf CAR-T cells’
The scientist and his fellow leader in childhood blood cancer research, Persis Amrolia, are setting out on a revolutionary immunotherapy trial to treat acute myeloid leukemia, which does not typically respond to treatment
Should we wipe out the pests now that we can?
New tools bring closer the possibility of exterminating species considered harmful to humans, which is fueling an ethical dilemma
The company that created woolly mice announces the ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf
Colossal has announced the birth of three genetically modified wolves, the first in history and gestated by dogs, to mimic the extinct species
The second revolution in gene therapy that has cured Javier, a child with a lethal error in the X chromosome
An Italian foundation that helped a young boy overcome Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome becomes the first non-profit in the world to request approval of these innovative treatments from the European Medicines Agency and the FDA
AI is a real chimera: It can make the world radically better
The era of artificial intelligence has already begun and we talk more about its risks than its possibilities. Can we allow ourselves to be optimistic?
From cloning to CRISPR: The center that created Dolly designs epidemic-resistant animals
The Roslin Institute for Animal Research turns to gene editing to combat some of the most important diseases in livestock and poultry
Noelia Ferruz, the chemist creating AI with ‘supernatural’ powers
The researcher has been given €1.5 million by the European Union to design a digital mind capable of explaining its reasoning
New technique opens the door to large-scale DNA editing to cure diseases
The tool offers the possibility of modifying larger regions of the genome with a lower risk of side effects, but at the moment it has only been tested in bacteria
A stem cell heart model solves the enigma of an inherited disease within a family
Spanish researchers discover an individual genetic variant that explains why a hereditary heart disease manifests very differently in two siblings
Chinese researchers create mutant worms that make spider silk
Scientists have introduced arachnid genes into silkworms to produce threads as strong as nylon and six times tougher than Kevlar
Did the father of Dolly the Sheep deserve the Nobel Prize?
Ian Wilmut, who died on Monday at age 79, was an honest scientist who found himself in the eye of the storm of the cloning controversy
New 14-day embryo model sheds light on the biggest enigma of human development
Palestinian scientist Jacob Hanna uses a chemical cocktail to induce self-organization of embryonic stem cells into a structure similar to a natural embryo
Years that define eras
The 21st Century is still in its infancy, yet it has already produced a host of events that are quickly reshaping the world
Scientists create genetic ‘pen’ that corrects common heart conditions
The sophisticated experimental treatment, which has proven to be effective in mice, opens the door to therapies that would be applied once and last a lifetime
The man behind the first genetically modified human babies wants to resume experimenting
The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors
Scientists are reviving proteins from billions of years ago to fight diseases in human cells
A study by a group of Spanish scientists demonstrates how to create new gene-editing systems with molecules that no longer exist in nature
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