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Scientists have created mice with partly human brains (opens the original)
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A vial of lab-grown brain organoids under fluorescent light at Stanford University. Photo / Mike Kai Chen, The New York Times The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers are already calling for new ethical guidelines. In order to learn more about brain disorders, scientists reported last week that they had created extraordinary mice whose brains are filled with millions of human neurons. The work marks a startling advance in
‘This is very strange’: Ancient smallpox may have been less deadly (opens the original)
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Transmission Electron Micrograph of smallpox viruses. For the first time, scientists have found ancient smallpox genomes from the Americas, hiding in skeletons in Chile that date back about 500 years. Photo / Phanie via AFP Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer. Perhaps no disease has inspired more terror than smallpox. Edward Jenner, who invented the smallpox vaccine in 17
This AI just created viruses not found in nature (opens the original)
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Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence to create new kinds of viruses, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the disturbing possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens. Synthesising viruses from scratch is hardly new. Researchers long ago lea
‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly (opens the original)
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Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
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