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DNA scientists pressed pause 50 years ago, will AI researchers do the same? (www.latimes.com)

In the summer of 1974, a group of international researchers published an urgent open letter asking their colleagues to suspend work on a potentially dangerous new technology. The letter was a first in the history of science — and now, half a century later, it has happened again....

An Alternative Cure: The Adoption and Survival of Bacteriophage Therapy in the USSR, 1922–1955 (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

While the viral nature of the “phage” was only widely accepted in the 1940s, attempts to use the phenomenon in treating infections started early. After raising hopes in the interwar years, by 1945 phage therapy had been abandoned almost entirely in the West, until the recent revival of interest in response to the crisis of...

Plant-based insulin derived from lettuce, can be taken orally (newatlas.com)

"Animal cells share some qualities with plant cells, but one key feature ours lack is a rigid cell wall. While this provides structure for plants, it’s also something scientists are increasingly looking at for use in new materials, cellulose technology and, now, insulin delivery."

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