Closer than ever to cloning the woolly mammoth, claims Colossal Biosciences | Technology News

Closer than ever to cloning the woolly mammoth, claims Colossal Biosciences | Technology News

Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences on Wednesday announced an early technical success in its effort to engineer elephants with woolly mammoth traits. The company said its scientists have managed to put elephant skin cells into an embryonic state. “I think we’re certainly in the running for the world-record hardest iPS-cell establishment,” said Colossal co-founder George Church, a …

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Study finds ways to remove contaminants from boron nitride nanotubes

Study finds ways to remove contaminants from boron nitride nanotubes

ANI | Updated: Jan 17, 2024 02:07 IST Los Angeles [US], January 17 (ANI): Very strong, light materials that can survive extremely high temperatures could pave the way for next-generation spacecraft, improve existing gadgets, and enable the creation of novel biomedical imaging or hydrogen storage applications, among other things.To this purpose, Rice University scientists in …

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Study sheds more light into secret strength of marine mussels

Study sheds more light into secret strength of marine mussels

ANI | Updated: Dec 01, 2023 23:19 IST Washington DC [US], December 1 (ANI): How can one establish robust, yet fast-releasing bonds between living and non-living tissues? Bioengineers who want to develop materials that fuse together for sophisticated biological applications are still perplexed by this subject.The McGill-led study focused on the marine mussel byssus, a …

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