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In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers.

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In A Nutshell MIT researchers built a portable ultrasound device weighing just over one pound that images more than 4 inches ...

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Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, scientists could figure out which parts of the brain are activated when ...

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Scientists used AI to design a completely new virus known as Evo-Φ2147. It is designed to infect and replicate inside ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...