Ed Cara
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62-Year-Old Man Doing Great After Leaving Hospital With Pig Kidney
Just two weeks after his historic transplant procedure, Richard Slayman has recovered well enough to be discharged from the hospital.
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Controversial Scientist Back at Work After Jail Time for Creating Genetically Modified Babies
He Jiankui is reportedly once again editing the genes of human embryos in the lab, but he claims his experiments will now follow the rules.
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Our Brains Are in Trouble: Nearly Half the World Living with Neurological Illness
Our brains are in rougher shape than we might think. New research from the World Health Organization and others estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, or epilepsy, just to name a few. Collectively, these neurological problems are now thought to be the single largest…
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Scientists Figure Out Why Labrador Retrievers Can Never Eat Enough
Veterinary scientists seem to have unraveled a mystery about why certain dogs simply can’t ever get enough to eat. In research out this week, they found evidence that a common mutation in Labrador retrievers causes them to experience greater hunger than usual while also reducing their metabolic rate, both of which make the dogs predisposed…