Getting wild mosquitos back to the lab alive takes a custom backpack (Science News) – Have you ever considered how mosquitos can be transported from the field to the laboratory for study? One molecular biologist, Deogratius Kavishe, designed a special climate-controlled backpack for just this purpose! (1)
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (Nature) – Scientists at Harvard University have generated a 3D map of a small fragment of a woman’s frontal cortex, a first for the neuroscience world! (2)
Lab-made universal blood could revolutionize transfusions. Scientists just got one step closer to making it. (Live Science) – Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have been conducting research to generate universally accepted blood in the lab, a big step toward reducing the current blood shortage! Read the original Nature publication here. (3)
Works Cited
(1) https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wild-mosquitoes-lab-custom-backpack
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