Albert Einstein once said: “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not so sure about the universe.” Albert might have been onto something. …

What if you learned that there was a way to stop the greatest killer in history who kills thousands of innocent people every year? What if we could eradicate malaria? Should we implement the GMO created for this purpose? These questions are only a fraction of those that immuned mosquitoes…

A review of methods used to rejuvenate organisms — In the past years (2012–2021), multiple exciting discoveries in the world of genomics have been made. From CRISPR, that allowed us to edit more efficiently, to revelations about the relationship between genome and epigenome, we are now more equipped than ever to rejuvenate organisms efficiently by modifying their genes. Epigenome…

Could they do the same for humans? In 2016, an experiment was conducted by researchers of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Its goal was to determine if the cyclic short-term expression of the four Yamanaka factors in-vivo would rejuvenate living breathing beings such as mice. Amazingly, it turns out…

Could this be the fountain of youth we’ve been looking for? — Had you been born 12 000 years ago, dying because of some hungry predator would be normal to you. Flash forward to only 150 years ago, death by tuberculosis would be your usual. You might think you would never actually think of those horrible events as normal, no matter when…

How light informs us about stars and galaxies Because they are invisible, we tend to forget particles are the building blocks of everything. It’s crazy to think such minuscule, secretive objects are so fundamental to all aspects of today’s science. …