FACTS: A biobank was setup over 40 years ago that has collected amniotic samples from over 100,000 pregnancies. Scientists reviewed these samples looking for prenatal…
FACTS: 8 million tons of plastics find their way into oceanic waterways every year. Using a simple chemical conversion, scientists are converting them into clean…
FACTS: In a study recently published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism, scientists from the University of British Columbia announced a link between higher insulin…
FACTS: While human-animal embryos have been created before, they were destroyed before they were allowed to develop. Most countries have outright banned the practice entirely.…
FACTS: MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have co-developed a model to predict the likelihood that breast cancer…