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	(Sponsor this newsletter) White House: ethics of human genome editing needs further review The White House said on Tuesday the ethical issues associated with gene-editing on the human genome need further study by the scientific community and should not be pursued until issues are resolved. "The administration believes that altering the human germline for clinical purposes is a line that should not be crossed at this time," John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a statement. "Research along these lines raises serious and urgent questions about the potential implications for clinical applications that could lead to genetically altered humans," Holdren said in the statement on the White House website. Read More » Can a Transplanted Penis Work Like the Original? A man in South Africa who underwent a penis transplant has impregnated his girlfriend, according to news reports. But it's not clear whether the man's transplanted penis works the same way an undamaged penis would, said Dr. Andrew Kramer, a urologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center who wasn't involved in the transplant. "Maybe ejaculate just dripped out," and he got the woman pregnant, Kramer told Live Science. Read More » Snacking on Peanuts May Extend Your Life People who regularly eat peanuts may live longer, a new study from the Netherlands finds. The biggest reductions in deaths among the nut-lovers were for deaths from respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes, followed by cancer and cardiovascular diseases, the researchers said. Eating peanut butter, however, despite its high content of peanuts, was not associated with a lower mortality risk. Read More » Yes, You Can Drown on Dry Land — Here's How Drowning kills about 10 people per day in the United States, and children younger than 5 are at the highest risk. Events that nonexperts sometimes call "dry drowning" or "secondary drowning," (these are not actual medical terms) can occur up to a day after the person had trouble in the water. This type of drowning is quite rare, making up just 1 to 2 percent of all drowning incidents, said Dr. Mark Zonfrillo, a pediatric emergency and injury researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Read More » Why no MERS vaccine? Lack of foresight frustrates scientists By Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Three years after the mysterious MERS virus first emerged in humans, scientists and drugmakers say there is no excuse for not having a vaccine that could have protected those now falling sick and dying in South Korea. The facts behind the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been slow to emerge, partly due to a secretive response in Saudi Arabia, which has suffered an outbreak stretching back to 2012. Read More » Why no MERS vaccine? Lack of foresight frustrates scientists By Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Three years after the mysterious MERS virus first emerged in humans, scientists and drugmakers say there is no excuse for not having a vaccine that could have protected those now falling sick and dying in South Korea. The facts behind the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been slow to emerge, partly due to a secretive response in Saudi Arabia, which has suffered an outbreak stretching back to 2012. Read More » One Month from Pluto, NASA Probe Sees Dwarf Planet's Many Faces The many "faces" of Pluto are visible in new images by NASA's New Horizon's probe, which is only one month away from the first-ever close encounter with the dwarf planet. This week, NASA released what it called "the best views ever obtained of the Pluto system" taken by New Horizons, which will make its closest approach of the dwarf planet starting July 14. A video of the Pluto new images reveals the many "faces" of this petite planetary object — that is, the photos show a complete 360 degree panorama of the dwarf planet's surface. Read More » Why no MERS vaccine? Lack of foresight frustrates scientists By Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Three years after the mysterious MERS virus first emerged in humans, scientists and drugmakers say there is no excuse for not having a vaccine that could have protected those now falling sick and dying in South Korea. The facts behind the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been slow to emerge, partly due to a secretive response in Saudi Arabia, which has suffered an outbreak stretching back to 2012. Read More » Molecules Reach Coldest Temperature Ever Physicists have chilled molecules to just a smidgen above absolute zero — colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang. Read More » Exclusive: Russia, U.S. competing for space partnership with Brazil By Anthony Boadle and Brian Winter BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are competing for a strategic role in Brazil's plan to launch commercial satellites from its base near the equator, opening up a new theater in their rivalry for allies and influence. Brazil's government expects to choose a partner to help provide technology in the coming months, three sources with knowledge of the deliberations told Reuters. Brazil partnered with Ukraine over the past decade to develop a launch vehicle at the Alcantara base on its northern Atlantic coast. Read More » Origin of Mysterious 'Cannon Earthquakes' in Red Sea Found Mysterious earthquakes that sound like cannon blasts have been puzzling people for decades, and now their origin has been traced way back to a giant block of volcanic rock hundreds of millions of years old, researchers say. For generations, Bedouin nomads living in the region of the Egyptian coastal resort Abu Dabbab, by the Red Sea, have heard noises that sound like cannon blasts accompanying small quakes in the area. "The name of Abu Dabbab are Arabic words that mean 'the Father of Knocks,' which is related to the sound heard in this area," Sami El Khrepy, a seismologist at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, told Live Science. Read More » Stretchy 'Origami Batteries' Could Power Smart Clothing Stretchy batteries inspired by origami could power smartwatches and other wearable electronics, researchers say. Increasingly, scientists worldwide are developing flexible electronics, such as video displays and solar panels, that could one day make their way into clothing and even human bodies. Hanqing Jiang, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, came up with the new device after "talking with an origami artist who showed me some famous origami patterns," he said. Read More »
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