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Lab-grown meat could be about to take a small step closer to our plates | Climate News
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Ivy Farm, on the outskirts of Oxford, is not a farm as you know it. There is grass but it’s artificial, there are pigs and sheep but they are upholstered foot-stools with sewn-on faces. There are offices and labs where meat is grown. This could be the future of farming. That future could be about…
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Researchers take major step towards creating synthetic embryo-like structures that mimic real human embryos | Science & Tech News
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Researchers have taken a major step towards creating synthetic embryo-like structures that mimic real human embryos with most of the fundamental features of the earliest stages of life. The latest study, from researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, built on the work of a number of recent experiments using human embryonic stem cells and…
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Elon Musk asks Twitter users if he should step down as boss of social media site | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk is polling Twitter users to ask if he should step down as head of the social media platform. Mr Musk, one of the world’s richest people, bought Twitter for $44bn in late October, but his short tenure has been turbulent. The owner of Tesla and SpaceX set his poll in motion just after…
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Star Wars: James Earl Jones to step back from Darth Vader role – but Ukrainian AI means his voice will live on | Ents & Arts News
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The actor behind the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader has signalled that he will be stepping away from the role – but has licensed the use of his voice for future productions. James Earl Jones first voiced Darth Vader in the original 1977 Star Wars movie and went on to perform in The…
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‘Important new step’ in finding treatment for motor neurone disease, scientists reveal | UK News
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Researchers believe they have found an “exciting new potential therapy” for motor neurone disease (MND), with a drug commonly used for other health treatments. MND is a group of rare diseases that destroy cells called motor neurons and causes patients to slowly lose the function of their muscles. About 5,000 people are thought to be…