Published on Oct 12, 2018
It is now possible to engineer healthy mice with two, same-sex parents in the lab. Here's what that means for reproductive science. |SOURCE| It is now possible to engineer healthy mice with two mothers and no father, according to a new study in Cell Stem Cell. Using stem cells and targeted gene editing, researchers also succeeded in creating mice [...] Read more
Published on Oct 12, 2018
New archaeological evidence from southwest Madagascar reveals that modern humans colonized the island thousands of years later than previously thought, according to a study published October 10, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Atholl Anderson from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and colleagues. |SOURCE| [...] Read more
Published on Oct 5, 2018
How do you mend an injured heart? We don’t yet know – but the answer is likely to lie in how the heart builds itself in the developing embryo one cell at a time. |SOURCE| In a study published today in Cell Stem Cell, Australian researchers report on the most in-depth study to date of exactly how human stem cells can be turned into heart cells. The [...] Read more
Published on Oct 5, 2018
In a first, astronomers have discovered how the tiny cousins of massive quasars can generate high-energy light at the tips of their fast-moving jets. |SOURCE| At vast cosmic distances, supermassive black holes called quasars gobble up matter into accretion disks that shine so brightly, they overpower the light from entire galaxies. Closer to home, [...] Read more