ARTICLES
How Smart Should Robots Be?
By Eve Herold - Time - Ideas • Technology - January 9, 2024 When people hear the words “social engineering,” they usually think of the supposed nefarious designs of government or an opposing political party. These days, there’s a general sense of social upheaval...
Gene Transfer Leads to Longer Life and Healthspan
By Eve Herold- Upworthy.com - October 23, 2023 - The naked mole rat won’t win any beauty contests, but it could possibly win in the talent category. Its superpower: fighting the aging process to live several times longer than other animals its size, in a state of...
Naked Mole Rats Defy Aging. One Scientist Has Dedicated Her Career to Finding Out How.
by Eve Herold - Upworthy.com - October 17, 2023 - Rochelle "Shelley" Buffenstein has one of the world's largest, if not the largest, lab-dwelling colonies of the naked mole rat. (No one has done a worldwide tabulation, but she has 4,500 of them.) Buffenstein has spent...
A Stomach Implant Saved Me. When Your Organs Fail, You Could Become a Cyborg, Too
by Eve Herold - Upworthy.com - September 1, 2023 - Beware, cyborgs walk among us. They’re mostly indistinguishable from regular humans and are infiltrating every nook and cranny of society. For full disclosure, I’m one myself. No, we’re not deadly intergalactic...
Regenerative medicine has come a long way, baby
By Eve Herold - Upworthy.com - May 02, 2023 - The field of regenerative medicine had a shaky start. In 2002, when news spread about the first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, a raucous debate ensued. Scary headlines and organized opposition groups put pressure on...
Science Has Given Us the Power to Undermine Nature’s Deadliest Creature: Should We Use It?
by Eve Herold - Upworthy.com - November 16, 2021 - Lurking among the swaying palm trees, sugary sands and azure waters of the Florida Keys is the most dangerous animal on earth: the mosquito. While there are thousands of varieties of mosquitoes, only a small...