Though GNN has reported that several sickle cell disease patients have already been successfully treated with CRISPR gene editing technology, a new method of addressing this debilitating condition has been successfully demonstrated. Braden Baptiste has had sickle cell crises since he was a toddler. It left him missing large chunks of…
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When a pizza delivery driver walked away from the door of an affluent house with nothing but a $2 tip, he didn’t realize it would change his life. $2 dollars doesn’t sound like much, but it earned the attention of a local police officer, who, astounded and distraught with the lack…
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76 million years ago, a young pterosaur dropped down from the skies to the water’s edge. Perhaps looking for a snack in the form of a prehistoric fish, the juvenile almost ended up becoming a meal itself. Or it may actually have, we’ll never know for certain, but a punctured vertebrate…
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These clever dogs are the first in the UK to be trained to sniff out bowel cancer. The Medical Detection Dogs charity began a groundbreaking study in 2024 to teach seven pooches how to detect tumors simply by smelling urine in pots. Following the first part of their training, the cocker…
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Less than half of Americans actually care which football team wins the Super Bowl—but a large majority will be gathering with friends for the annual big game. According to a new survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, one in four respondents are more interested in the food being served than watching the…
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This may be the most adorable sea creature in the world—and seeing one face-to-face has been on the bucket list for a Japanese scuba diver until now. Yusuke Fukami fulfilled that dream by capturing underwater photographs of the cartoon-like Costasiella sea slug recently while in Bali. He traveled to a diving…
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Age-related declines experienced by older adults have significantly slowed down, according to a new study published last month in Nature Aging. Improvements in education, nutrition, and sanitation across the 20th Century likely played key roles in the improvements of cognitive, locomotive, psychological, and sensory capacities. The study—from the Robert N. Butler…
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