Matthew Reynolds

3 weeks ago | es.wired.com | Matthew Reynolds

Esta es una lista no exhaustiva de los lugares donde se han encontrado microplásticos: el Monte Everest, la Fosa de las Marianas, la nieve de la Antártida, nubes, plancton, tortugas, ballenas, ganado, aves, agua del grifo, cerveza, sal, placentas humanas, semen, leche materna, heces, testículos, hígados, cerebros, arterias y sangre. Mi sangre, concretamente. A principios de marzo ordeñé unas gotas de las yemas de mis dedos y envié la muestra para que la analizaran en busca de microplásticos.

3 weeks ago | wired.com | Matthew Reynolds

This is a non-exhaustative list of places microplastics have been found: Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, Antarctic snow, clouds, plankton, turtles, whales, cattle, birds, tap water, beer, salt, human plancentas, semen, breast milk, feces, testicles, livers, brains, arteries, and blood. My blood, specifically. In early March I milked a few drops out of my fingertips and sent the sample to be tested for microplastics.

1 month ago | wired.com | Matthew Reynolds

The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the third state to outlaw meat grown in vats from small samples of animal cells. The Mississippi bill will make it illegal for anyone to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat in the state. Violating the law would be a misdemeanour, punishable by a fine of no more than $500 and/or up to three months in county jail.

1 month ago | es.wired.com | Matthew Reynolds

La empresa de desextinción Colossal Biosciences ha modificado genéticamente ratones para que tengan rasgos similares a los mamuts, creando lo que la empresa denomina el ratón lanudo Colossal. Los ratones de laboratorio, a los que se ha modificado el pelaje, son una muestra del tipo de modificaciones genéticas que la empresa espera llevar a cabo a una escala mucho mayor, modificando los elefantes asiáticos para que se parezcan más a sus antepasados los mamuts lanudos.

1 month ago | wired.com | Matthew Reynolds

De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company calls the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab mice, which have been modified to have shaggy fur and golden coats, are a demonstration of the kind of gene edits that the company hopes to perform on a much larger scale, modifying Asian elephants to more closely resemble their woolly mammoth ancestors.