Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data
Hackers are building up robust systems to monitor changes to government websites. And they’re keeping track of data that’s already…
Scientists Are Trading In Lab Mice for Hundreds of Mini-Brains on a Chip
For the first time, 2-D biochips are colliding with 3-D mini-organs—and together they’re making some of the best organ simulations…
770,000 Tubes of Spit Help Map America’s Great Migrations
With their massive database of DNA, Ancestry has mapped how culture and geography has shaped the genetic structure of the…
Inside the Race to Invent a Fish-Free Fish Food
Fish farms are supposed to be a sustainable replacement for ocean fishing—but most of them rely on fish-based feed. Enter…
Moving Patient Data Is Messy, But Blockchain Is Here to Help
Blockchain technologies aren’t just for crytpocurrency anymore. Researchers and corporations are turning to them for a very different business: healthcare.…
A Clue to the Mystery of Colombia’s Missing Zika Cases
New evidence shows Zika causes brain malformations in babies with normal-sized heads, changing the way doctors diagnose and monitor the…
First Human-Pig Chimera Is a Step Toward Custom Organs
Scientists at the Salk Institute report today the first ever embryos containing cells from both pigs and humans. The post…
If You Look at X-Rays or Moles for a Living, AI Is Coming for Your Job
Pattern-recognition algorithms promise to drastically change the job description for doctors who decipher diagnoses from images. The post If You…
Fighting Cancer’s Crisis of Confidence, One Study at a Time
The Reproducibility Project announces its initial cancer study results today. The post Fighting Cancer’s Crisis of Confidence, One Study at…
3 Critical Questions Tom Price Didn’t Answer at the Health and Human Services Hearing
These are the important points to consider when Price faces his formal confirmation hearing on January 24. The post 3…