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You’ve Heard Of mRNA, Now There’s tRNA – Potential Gene Therapy Of The Future For Thousands With Incurable Diseases3D render of DNA molecule with glowing section to indicate a mutationYou’ve Heard Of mRNA, Now There’s tRNA – Potential Gene Therapy Of The Future For Thousands With Incurable Diseases3D render of DNA molecule with glowing section to indicate a mutation

You’ve Heard Of mRNA, Now There’s tRNA – Potential Gene Therapy Of The Future For Thousands With Incurable Diseases

For patients with diseases caused by certain genetic mutations, tRNA therapy – though still in the experimental stages – could be a lifeline.

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For The First Time Ever, A Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Has Cleared Phase 3 Trials – And With Flying Colors

Just a year after RFK Jr. cut half a billion of funding for the technology, mRNA vaccines are promising individualized cancer vaccines that cut the chances of recurrence in half.

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Dolphins Are Learning A Strange New Hunting Technique Using Shells And Seem To Be Teaching It To Others: Watch The First-Ever Footage

Clever girl!

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New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old Site

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Forget Mars! If We Want To Send Humans To Another Planet, Venus Is The Way To Go

We can do so much better than a dusty Red Planet. Gives us a real interplanetary adventure!

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200,000 Barrels Of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped In The Atlantic. Decades Later, We’re Finally Learning What Happens When They Leak

It’s not good news, but it also not yet terrible news.

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Early Cretaceous Footprints Appear To Come From The Largest Mammal Of The Dinosaur Era

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"No Place To Hide?": Study Identifies Where You Should Go To Avoid Global Catastrophe, But It Largely Involves Moving To Australia

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20,000 People In Oregon Have Now Received Legal Psilocybin Therapy, And The Outcomes Are Overwhelmingly Positive

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Two Airport Workers Die Of Malaria In Frankfurt, Germany, After Mosquito Stows Away On Aircraft

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“Revived” Protein Dating Back To The Dawn Of Mammal Evolution, 160 Million Years Ago, Hints At New Way Of Tackling Antibiotic Resistancerows of agar plates with different coloured microorganisms growing on them
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Two Unvaccinated People Die Of Measles In Pennsylvania Amid Worst Outbreak In Decades

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Scientists Got Clownfish To Watch A VR Horror Movie – Their Reaction Revealed How Artificial Light At Night Changes Their Physiology

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How Many Legs Is Too Many? Because This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24

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This Is The First Przewalski's Horse Born In The Steppes Of Central Kazakhstan For 200 Years

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Nancy Grace Roman Observatory: T-Rex-Sized Space Telescope Launching This Weekend Will Photograph Exoplanets And Solve Cosmic Mysteries

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Mars Is Hotter On One Side... Under Its South Pole, Adding More Weirdness To Its Planetary “Dichotomy”a sliced version of the red planet with a mantle that looks hotter in the south
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Mars Is Hotter On One Side... Under Its South Pole, Adding More Weirdness To Its Planetary “Dichotomy”

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Planets Must Form Quickly Or Not At All – JWST Observations Reveal The Limited Window Of Formation In 72 Baby Systems

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Man Manages To Access Bitcoin Wallet After 12 Years, Becomes An Instant Millionaire Overnight

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If You Think Not Owning Your Media Is Bad, Thank The Lord That "Flexplay" Did Not Catch On

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Flaw In NASA System Found By AI Could Have Been Used To Issue Commands To Active Spacecraft

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Ever Struggle To Sleep On Your First Night Somewhere New? Be Grateful – Your Brain Is Just Looking Out For You

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The Mathematical Reason Why No Voting System Can Ever Be Totally Fair

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How To Get More IFLScience: Add Us As A “Preferred Source" On Google

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Unlocking The Future Together: Why IFLScience Is Launching A Membership Model

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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing ScienceAn image of the vault doors opening with a screenshot of the IFLScience Vault article.
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Opening The Vault: Uncovering A World Of Strange And Intriguing Science

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In 2017, Scientists Journeyed 1,500 Meters Below The Sea In Search Of A Shipwreck. Instead, They Found A Bunch Of Washing Machinesan rov scanning the dark waters along the seabed finds square shapes in the distance
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In 2017, Scientists Journeyed 1,500 Meters Below The Sea In Search Of A Shipwreck. Instead, They Found A Bunch Of Washing Machines

They do move in herds.

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Two Moons Of Saturn Get Almost All The Attention. Here’s Why The Other Oddballs Orbiting the Ringed Planet Deserve A Look Too

The whole system is packed full of quirks and oddities that we've yet to fully understand or explain.

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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explainedblue brain image on a black background to the right of yellow text that reads How Does Memory Work?
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How We Remember: The Neuroscience of Memory Explained

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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophya robot
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AI Consciousness Explained: Science vs Philosophy

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Unethical Experiments That Shook The WorldThe Tuskegee syphilis study
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Unethical Experiments That Shook The World

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