GoKawiilThunder generates acoustic waves that can help scientists probe Earth, a person’s own mitochondria have been injected into their eyes in an attempt to restore their vision and economists call for ‘pro-worker’ AI.
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A microscope image of a mitochondrion, artificially coloured in green and red. The organelles were extracted for a retinal transplant from the person’s own leg muscles. Credit: K. R. Porter/SPL
Scientists have extracted mitochondria from a woman’s leg muscles and injected them into the vitreous fluid of her eyes in an attempt to treat severe blindness. The procedure caused no inflammation or side effects — but had a limited effect on restoring responses to light in the eyes, and did not restore the woman’s vision. The study shows that it was “relatively safe” to inject the person’s own mitochondria into the eyes, says mitochondria biologist Temurkhan Ayupov.
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Reference: ResearchSquare preprint (not peer reviewed)
89% The proportion of papers published in December and archived in PubMed that showed signs of AI-assisted writing. (Nature | 9 min read) Reference: arXiv preprint (not peer reviewed)
More than 50 studies on cell ageing have apparently used the wrong antibody to identify a key protein in experiments, according to a science sleuth. The latest case comes two months after Sholto David, a UK-based independent molecular biologist, identified hundreds of studies with a similar error and three months after he and another researcher spotted problems with antibody-validation images in the catalogue of one of the world’s largest suppliers, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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