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• Zach Morrow

  

  Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Beating Human Hearts From Stem Cells

  Popular Science - Alexandra Ossola

  It’s the closest we've come to growing transplantable hearts in the lab Of the 4,000 Americans waiting for heart transplants, only 2,500 will receive new hearts in the next year. Even for those lucky enough to get a transplant, the biggest risk is the their bodies will reject the new heart and …

• Zach Morrow

  

  Canned Tuna Is Too High In Mercury for Pregnant Women: Health Group

  TIME - Alice Park

  Nutrition experts agree that fish is a good source of protein and healthy fats, but these health benefits often come with a down side. Many fish species, from deep-ocean varieties like tuna to river-bound species like carp, also contain high levels of mercury, which the fish absorb from polluted …

• Zach Morrow

  

  A Chinese “mosquito factory” releases 20 million of the little buggers into the wild every week

  Quartz - Zheping Huang

  This post has been updated with information about international programs on vector control. A Chinese factory is breeding 20 million male mosquitoes a week, and releasing them into nature to copulate with wild female mosquitoes. Its aim—culling the population, and eradicating disease. A team of …

• Zach Morrow

  

  Newly discovered bacteria eats and digests PET plastic

  CNET - Michelle Starr

  A bacteria that not only eats, but digests, PET plastic has been found by a team of researchers from Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio University in Japan. The team went out hunting for the bacterium. They collected 250 samples of things like sediment, soil and wastewater, all contaminated by …

• Zach Morrow

  

  New plastic-eating bacteria could help save planet

  CNN

  CNN — Scientists in Japan have discovered a strain of bacteria that can eat plastic, a finding that might help solve the world’s fast-growing plastic pollution problem. The species fully breaks down one of the most common kinds of plastic called Polyethylene terephthalate (PET). It’s the type often …

• Zach Morrow

  

  Things to know about GMO mosquito test proposed in Florida

  apnewsarchive.com - JENNIFER KAY

  MIAMI (AP) — The spread of the Zika virus in Latin America is giving a boost to a British biotech firm’s proposal to deploy a genetically modified …