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Could humans become immortal, as Putin was heard telling Xi?
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» PARIS - Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have been recorded on a hot mic discussing how organ transplants and other medical advances could let humans live past 150 years -- or even become immortal.
Open mic catches Xi and Putin discussing immortality
AFP, Published on 04/09/2025
» BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality as they chatted before Beijing’s massive military parade this week, in comments picked up by state media microphones.
US family reaches deal over cells harvested in 1950s
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.
US approves lab-grown chicken for sale
AFP, Published on 22/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States has granted its first ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, paving the way for lab-grown meat to be eaten by consumers.
EU's next food fight: regulating gene-edited crops
AFP, Published on 22/05/2023
» BRUSSELS - Extreme weather caused by climate change has damaged food production across Europe.
US congressional report slams FDA approval of Alzheimer's drug
AFP, Published on 30/12/2022
» WASHINGTON - The US Food and Drug Administration's approval process for a controversial drug used to treat Alzheimer's was "rife with irregularities," a congressional report said Thursday.
Chinese astronauts set up new lab on space station
AFP, Published on 25/07/2022
» BEIJING: Astronauts entered the new lab module of China's space station for the first time Monday, in a major step towards completing the orbital outpost by the end of the year.
US hits China with new trade curbs, sanctions over Uyghur rights
AFP, Published on 17/12/2021
» WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday unleashed a volley of actions to censure China's treatment of the Uyghur minority, with lawmakers voting to curb trade and new sanctions slapped on the world's top consumer drone maker.
A year of Covid jabs, but treatments lag behind
AFP, Published on 03/12/2021
» PARIS: After a year of vaccines aimed at preventing Covid, treatments for people infected with the virus are few, with most restricted to hospital use and extremely pricey.
Desperate US bid to engineer corals for climate change
AFP, Published on 08/11/2021
» MIAMI - A bit of coral shimmers like gold in a US lab as part of urgent work to help the species protect itself from climate change, an effort even skeptical experts see as sadly justifiable.