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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

More than 100,000 Americans are on waiting lists for donor organs, most needing a kidney. Only 25,000 human donor kidneys become available each year. Twelve Americans on the kidney list die every day on average. Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into other animals and then to brain-dead human patients. In 2022, researchers received […]

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China’s Tariffs on U.S. Agricultural Products Take Effect

Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the latest escalation of a trade fight between the world’s two-largest economies. The Chinese government announced the tariffs last week, shortly after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products for the […]

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Software bug at firm left NHS data ‘vulnerable to hackers’

Ben Morris Editor, Technology of Business Getty Images Medefer handles around 1,500 referrals a month The NHS is “looking into” allegations that patient data was left vulnerable to hacking due to a software flaw at a private medical services company. The flaw was found last November at Medefer, which handles 1,500 NHS patient referrals a […]

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Lab-grown food could be sold in UK in two years

BBC This lab-grown Wagyu steak is ready to eat, but can’t be sold in the UK because it has not yet been approved Meat, dairy and sugar grown in a lab could be on sale in the UK for human consumption for the first time within two years from now, sooner than expected. The Food […]

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European soccer review: Are Premier League’s best burnt out?

Alex Kirkland Constantin Eckner Mar 9, 2025, 04:55 PM ET It was anything but business as usual in the Premier League or the Bundesliga this weekend. Some of the biggest clubs in England and Germany dropped points, others laboured to claim what ordinarily would’ve been run-of-the-mill wins. In Spain, Barcelona sat out the action, mourning […]

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