The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched [https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-clinical-trial-three-mrna-hiv-vaccines] Phase I clinical trials for three experimental HIV vaccine candidates. Developed by Moderna, all three vaccines utilize mRNA technology, the same platform used for creating the company’s FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine. * The vaccines prompt...
The first human to receive a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig, David Bennett (57), has died two months after the surgery. The pig heart functioned normally for several weeks, and the University of Maryland Medical Center provided regular updates suggesting that Bennet was improving. Bennett’s body did not...
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales in Australia has given a small flock of sheep exceptionally sharp eyesight via bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. Dubbed Phoenix 99, the device works by wirelessly relaying a camera feed from a...
A new study conducted by researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary has found that dogs can differentiate between different languages. The researchers analyzed the brains scans of 18 different dogs listening to the audio of “The Little Prince” in both Spanish and Hungarian. They discovered that their secondary auditory...
For the first time in 3,500 years, humankind was able to look upon the face of Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I. Archeologists discovered Amenhotep’s mummy a century ago in 1881 in Deir el-Bahari, a small village outside the world-famous Valley of Kings, but never unwrapped it due to...
