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How Blood-Based Cell Isolation Advances De-Extinction and Conservation

Among the many technological breakthroughs that enabled Colossal Biosciences to revive the dire wolf, one innovation stands out for its immediate practical applications to conservation: a novel approach to somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) that uses cells isolated from simple blood draws rather than invasive tissue sampling. This technique, which played a crucial role in […]

Environment

Can Tech companies be Environmentally friendly

According to Greenpeace, Apple has been the most environmentally friendly of the world’s major tech companies 3 years in a row. Greenpeace monitors the energy usage and utility of the IT sector. Reports show that it has continuously measured the degree to which renewable energy has been increased and prioritized in large internet companies. Apple and Google […]

Science

Desalination: Will Batteries Do the Trick?

Desalination — the one technology scientists and the public are counting on to save us from the coming blue revolution. Large, fenced-off plants with bulky high pressure pumps. Is this what the future will look like? According to scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), it doesn’t have to be that way. They […]