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NASA scientists suggest why we are alone – and what fate awaits the human race | Science & Tech News
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We have not met alien life because intelligent societies tend to wipe themselves out, scientists have claimed – and the human race could be next. A team based at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has used a previous theory called the Great Filter to explain their conclusions. It states that many other civilisations have existed during…
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Human brain tissue implanted into rats integrated and grew with host’s brain | UK News
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A research team in the US has shown that human brain tissue implanted into rats can integrate into its host’s brain, promising to give scientists an entirely new way to study brain disorders – but raising ethical questions too. Professor Sergiu Pasca and colleagues at Stanford University in California took sesame seed-sized clumps of human…
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Lab rats given human brain transplants could shed new light on diseases, say researchers | UK News
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A research team in the US has shown that human brain tissue implanted into rats can integrate into its host’s brain, promising to give scientists an entirely new way to study brain disorders – but raising ethical questions too. Professor Sergiu Pasca and colleagues at Stanford University in California took sesame seed-sized clumps of human…
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Swedish scientist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize for work on human evolution | Science & Tech News
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A Swedish scientist who used DNA sequencing to find the link between extinct people and modern humans has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Svante Paabo was given what is arguably the most prestigious prize in the scientific world for discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. He…
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‘Skinometer’ can detect skin cancer that’s invisible to the human eye | UK News
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The world’s first scanner capable of detecting skin cancer invisible to the human eye has been invented to improve diagnosis and speed up surgery. The aim of the “Skinometer” – developed by scientists at Warwick University – is to detect how far the cancer has spread beneath the skin. Skin cancer patients being treated at…
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‘Wrinkly bag’ creature with no anus is not a human ancestor, scientists find | Science & Tech News
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A “wrinkly” creature with no anus that was thought to be an ancient human ancestor is in fact not, scientists have found. The microscopic creature has been described by researchers at the University of Bristol as “a spiky, wrinkly sack” and is named Saccorhytus, from the Latin and Ancient Greek meaning “wrinkly bag”. It has…