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Scientists Create Artificial Mouse Babies

Scientists Create Artificial Mouse Babies

A new discovery has allowed scientists to create artificial babies without eggs, sperm or a womb. For the first time, scientists have created a mouse embryo using only stem cells and a rotating flask of nutrients. Researchers mixed three types of mouse embryonic stem cells, known as embryoids that replicate the first 8.5 days of the animals’ development. These stem[Read More…]

Military Study Shows Flu Vaccine May Increase Risk of Coronavirus In Susceptible Individuals

Military Study Shows Flu Vaccine May Increase Risk of Coronavirus In Susceptible Individuals

The flu vaccine may make people more susceptible to coronaviruses, according to a new military study. Titled, Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017–2018 influenza season, the report addressed the phenomena of vaccine virus interference of the influenza vaccine. It showed that receiving the flu jab may increase the risk of other respiratory[Read More…]

A third of planets could host alien life, research finds

A third of planets could host alien life, research finds

A third of planets outside of our solar system could potentially host alien life, according to researchers from Harvard University. Scientists say that any ‘exoplanet’ that is two to four times the size of Earth is likely to contain water and essential elements that could host alien life. Analysis of data from the exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and the Gaia[Read More…]

Free energy inventor investigated by the FBI

Free energy inventor investigated by the FBI

The Oklahoma Securities Department has announced an investigation into a free energy inventor who is alleged to have defrauded many investors out of millions of dollars for his free energy machine. Wayne Travis, 51, of Zydro Energy Revolution, LLC in Chickasha, OK, USA, has been accused of duping businesses with false claims about a working free energy machine. Travis had[Read More…]

Japanese scientists have created an enzyme that eats away at plastic bottle waste

Could this spell the end of plastic bottle waste?

Japanese scientists have accidentally created a mutant enzyme that eats away at plastic bottles, it has been revealed. The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug.[Read More…]