RIO DE JANEIRO — Dozens of young people kneeled under the scorching sun this week in Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior, planting a green corridor that will be a future safe passageway for an emblematic and endangered species, the golden lion tamarin. The 300 tree seedlings they planted this week — only inches tall at … Read more
Research out this week appears to show the potential longevity of transplanted organs from genetically engineered pigs. Scientists gave monkeys kidneys from these animals, finding that some were able to live for one to two years. Many of the genetic changes evaluated in this study could make pig-to-human transplants a more viable treatment to test … Read more
Contemporary allegations of potential securities fraud have been leveled at Elon Musk over statements he lately made concerning the deaths of primates used for analysis at Neuralink, his biotech startup. Letters despatched this afternoon to prime officers on the US Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) by a medical ethics group name on the company to … Read more
They then administered a single low dose of klotho below every monkey’s pores and skin, elevating ranges of the protein to these usually current within the animals at beginning. 4 hours later, researchers had them full the food-finding process in batches of 20 trials, and the group then retested the monkeys over the subsequent two … Read more