Gene editing, with the potential to cure thousands suffering from rare diseases, face problem: It’s not profitable to spend millions making a drug that may only treat one person. But some have a solution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/world/science-health/gene-editing-superstars/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #biotechnology #genetics
Tomorrow, 16 December, #IN2PAST is promoting the meeting ‘The Crises of the Human’, aims to explore how the idea of ‘humanity’ is being unsettled, fragmented, and displaced across multiple domains.
It will take place at Edições do Saguão (Lisbon) from 2 pm.
Please do come along!
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/crises-human/
#Histodons #Humanity #Humanities #Authoritarianism #AI #ClimateChange #Pandemics #Biotechnology #Earth #History #Anthropology #Arts #Heritage
A clinical trial by a Tokyo-based venture company confirmed that transplanting cardiac muscle cell clusters created from iPS cells into patients with severe heart failure led to improvements. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/13/japan/science-health/tokyo-startup-ips-heart-muscle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #ips #stemcells #biotechnology
CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
https://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607
#HackerNews #CRISPR #fungus #sustainable #proteinpacked #meatalternative #biotechnology
A Japanese research team has produced induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells safely and efficiently by adding artificially synthesized ribonucleic acid to human blood cells. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/japan/science-health/ips-cells-blood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #ips #stemcells #biotechnology #health #kyotouniversity
Chip Butty
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Job Alert
6 PhD positions in infection biology, immunology, parasitology and medical biotechnology
Deadline: 2025-12-10
Location: Germany, Berlin
#hiring #PhD #biology #parasitology #Immunology #InfectionBiology #biotechnology #biochemistry #biophysics
Job Alert
6 PhD positions in infection biology, immunology, parasitology and medical biotechnology
Deadline: 2025-12-10
Location: Germany, Berlin
#hiring #PhD #biology #parasitology #Immunology #InfectionBiology #biotechnology #biochemistry #biophysics
Why Nigeria Accepted GMOs
https://www.asimov.press/p/nigeria-crops
#HackerNews #Nigeria #GMOs #Agriculture #Biotechnology #FoodSecurity
Aral Balkan
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Saving the banana? A genetically modified Cavendish banana has been successfully grown in a field infected with the deadly Panama disease TR4—and it survived. This is a huge deal for global food security.
#bananas #biotech #biotechnology #gm #geneticallymodifiedfoods #cavendishbanana
Saving the banana? A genetically modified Cavendish banana has been successfully grown in a field infected with the deadly Panama disease TR4—and it survived. This is a huge deal for global food security.
#bananas #biotech #biotechnology #gm #geneticallymodifiedfoods #cavendishbanana
Could humans really live forever, as Russian President Vladimir Putin was heard telling Chinese leader Xi Jinping? Maybe not, though serious research is increasingly revealing more about why we age. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/05/world/science-health/xi-putin-immortality-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #vladimirputin #xijinping #biotechnology #genetics #transplants