Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries.
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They were coasting to the Moon when a ruptured oxygen tank derailed the mission.
50 years later, watch “Apollo 13: ‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem’” to see how a tale of tragedy would turn into a tale of triumph: https://youtu.be/MdvoA-sjs0A
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Researchers claim to have reversed ageing in mice. It has long been believed that if we understand the causes of ageing, it may be possible to reverse it. New work on mice shows that it is possible to cure vision loss caused by old age or injury. Researchers think that this effect may depend on rewinding the ‘biological clock’ which marks the age of cells, suggesting that the cells in the eye have been made functionally younger.
Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4
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Diseases caused by folded proteins in the body are all over the news every day, like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and COVID-19. And now, a Google model powered by artificial intelligence could map these folded proteins in more detail than ever before, allowing scientists to “unfold” proteins and better explore possible treatments.
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One-month old Molly Gibson has broken the record set by her own sister, Emma, now three years old.
In a world’s first, US-based company Eat Just’s lab-grown meat just went on sale in Singapore following regulatory approval.
US-based company Eat Just’s lab-grown meat is going for sale in Singapore following regulatory approval, The Guardian reports, marking the first time such a product has been authorized for sale in a yet-unidentified restaurant.
The company is also going through regulatory processes to eventually get their product approved in the United States.
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A recent observation of an extremely rare subatomic process allows scientists to test the Standard Model’s boundaries.
Harvard Medical School scientists have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye cells in the retina to recapture youthful gene function.
The team’s work, described Dec. 2 in Nature, represents the first demonstration that it may be possible to safely reprogram complex tissues, such as the nerve cells of the eye, to an earlier age.
In addition to resetting the cells’ aging clock, the researchers successfully reversed vision loss in animals with a condition mimicking human glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness around the world.
