Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 16 December 2024; doi:10.1038/s41587-024-02519-2 To enhance the safety and security of the US bioeconomy, a new public–private partnership should be established to facilitate information sharing and threat analysis among industry, government and academia, and to develop and deploy safeguards. Source link
When I was a little kid I had a friend who was born on February 29, the “leap day” we add to that month every four years. I remember we used to tease him by saying that he was only three years old. I lost contact with him over the years, but I’d guess that … Read more
From freezing thundersnow to deadly wildfires, this week’s science news has been nothing short of apocalyptic. Flames have swept through over 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of Los Angeles County, killing at least 10 people and destroying more than 10,000 homes and other structures. Meanwhile, record-breaking low temperatures and heavy snowfall battered the East Coast and … Read more
On Jan. 10, 2025, NASA astronaut Don Pettit posted two images of the Los Angeles fires from the International Space Station. Multiple destructive fires broke out in the hills of Los Angeles County in early January 2025, fueled by a dry landscape and winds that gusted up to 100 miles per hour. See satellite imagery of … Read more
Spatial transcriptomics methods have been slow to move into clinical practice, but spatial proteomics are cheaper and more scalable, and could progress faster. Cell atlas consortiums, such as the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), have generated immense amounts of data. Less than a decade ago, the HCA had the ambition to map every cell type in … Read more
February 23, 2024 5 min read JWST Solves Decades-Old Mystery of Nearby Supernova Scientists have finally found the compact object at the heart of the famous supernova of 1987, and it’s not a black hole By Jonathan O’Callaghan edited by Lee Billings Nearly forty years ago residents of Earth were treated to a rare cosmic … Read more
Inflammation can reawaken dormant viruses in the brain, which may help to explain why concussions often precede dementia, a new study finds. Brain injuries like concussions raise the risk of dementia, and the more blows someone takes to the head, the higher that risk becomes, evidence suggests. Scientists are investigating what happens in the brain … Read more
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Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 07 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41587-024-02529-0 Bispecific T cell receptor molecules designed to wipe out HIV-infected T cells offer glimpses of a cure. Source link
For the first time since 1972 a spacecraft launched from the U.S. has landed softly on the surface of the moon. And, for the first time ever, this successful extraterrestrial landing was achieved by a spacecraft built and operated by private industry rather than by a government space program. At 6:23 P.M. EST a 14.1-foot-tall … Read more