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My infomercial of the day — “just ad water and Ta-dah, you have a vaccine!”

http://thejerseytomatopress.com/stories/To-produce-biopharma…water,1851

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have created tiny freeze-dried pellets that include all of the molecular machinery needed to translate DNA into proteins, which could form the basis for on-demand production of drugs and vaccines. Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT. Antimicrobial peptide illustration by Ymahn/Wikimedia Commons.

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Nice.

Stem cell treatments involve some serious health risks for the patients and are very expensive. A new alternative developed for patients with health problems may be a game-changer as a team of researchers has developed synthetic stem cells, which prove to be as efficient as the regular ones. ( NC State University )

A team of researchers made a significant breakthrough which will help patients with heart problems all over the world. The scientists managed to create synthetic stem cells, which can help the heart tissue regenerate just as well as normal stem cells, while also avoiding the complications associated with them.

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The gene-editing tool is powerful, and an antidote can help make it safer.

With cells from a patient’s own skin.

One macromolecule to rule them all, from Ebola to Zika and the flu.

Check out my new story for Vice Motherboard on the top things to look out for in 2017: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/five-scientific-trends-2017 #transhumanism

Neural prosthetics, driverless cars, geoengineering and more.

This first trial will study the safety of using CRISPR-edited immune cells as a therapy.

This could be a huge deal, a game changer even.

Definitely research to follow closely.

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Now you can turn your smartphone into an eye doctor.