dryriver shares a report from the BBC: Scientists have pinpointed the homeland of all humans alive today to a region south of the Zambesi River. The area is now dominated by salt pans, but was once home to an enormous lake, which may have been our ancestral heartland 200,000 years ago. Our ancestors settled for 70,000 years, until the local climate…
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Lab-Grown Meat Could Be On Store Shelves By 2022
Thanks to Future Meat Technologies, lab-grown meat could be hitting store shelves by 2022. The company “has raised $14 million in new financing to build its first pilot manufacturing facilities to bring the cost of production of a cell-made streak down to $10 per pound — or $4 if the meat is combined with plant-based meat substitutes,” reports TechCrunch. From the…
CRISPR Now Cuts and Splices Whole Chromosomes
Researchers report they’ve adapted CRISPR and combined it with other tools to cut and splice large genome fragments with ease. The study, conducted by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., has been published in this week’s issue of Science. Science Magazine reports: The tried and true tools of genetic engineering simply can’t handle…
Measuring the Rising Risks of Obesity and Diabetes in Africa
While Africa’s high infectious disease burden has drawn the most attention from the international public health community, the continent is also facing rising impacts from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes. Similarly, crises of food insecurity in the region have obscured the risks of obesity accompanying Africa’s increasing economic growth and urbanization. This is changing, however, […]
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