In a new study, stopping skeletal-muscle cancer cells from making a specific protein forced them to turn into healthy muscle cells.
  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 year ago

    Given the vast utility of CRISPR, you know the Pentagon is whipping up some inventive plague weapons at some black site somewhere.

    • arefx@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      Somewhere in the desert a 27 year old physicist is pushing a cart into a laser beam.

    • cassetti@kbin.social
      23·
      1 year ago

      Well… Let’s just say those full body scans they take during the medical entrance exams isn’t just so they can confirm you’re healthy… They’re taking full scans of your body. (Decades ago the intention was to assist in manufacturing replacement body parts when needed for soldiers so they could return to battle faster, but I think we’re moving far past that goal now…)