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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A British man could become the first person in the world to be cured of HIV using a new therapy designed…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An unlikely union – VR and a blind man – makes history. A solitary plinth stands in the center of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Now that we have access to advanced gene editing techniques, such as CRISPR, it is inevitable that we will progressively…
Proven in the labs Texas-PEG has already restored motor function in injured lab rats it isn’t the first time that we’re read about new breakthroughs…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers have jump started hearts with light paving the way to get rid of electrical defibrillators for good. Current…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day researchers hope they can do the same in Humans. In a world first, scientists led by Kamel…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers have shown for the first time that future generations won’t need a mum or dad. Depending on the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers are moving closer to helping fully paralysed people communicate just by thought alone. “To be or not to…
Worried that AI’s one day could make us their pets Elon Musk is teasing a new brain-hacking tech There’s no doubting that Elon Musk is…
NASA successfully sequences DNA in space, ushering in better healthcare for astranauts and a new era in space biology For the first time ever, DNA was…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hundreds of millions of people suffer every day from chronic disease, pain and illness but now a new class of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Scientists have found a new chemical that could help drug addicts forget they were ever addicted. In the cult-classic “Eternal…
