🩸A newly discovered cell repairs blood vessels and tissues, the world’s first BCI brain chip implanted in a cancer patient, and searching for the beginning of life inside stars

Medical researchers have found a new cell, EndoMac progenitors, which could change the current understanding of how blood vessels and macrophages form. These immune cells play a vital role in tissue repair and defense.

In the past, macrophages were thought to derive from bone marrow.

A new study, however, seeks to prove that these immune cells, produced during the earliest stages of life, actually come from EndoMac progenitors. Dive deeper into this Must-Read.

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🩸EndoMac: Newly-discovered cell type that repairs blood vessels and tissues when the body wants

Interestingly, most tissues retain macrophages, cells that constantly renew themselves, though they’re produced during embryonic development.

For the first time, Australian researchers believe they have found the responsible cells: EndoMac progenitors.

This discovery could potentially pave the way for a new breakthrough in human tissue repair and regenerative medicine.

🧠‘World’s first’ graphene-based brain chip implanted in a cancer patient

Companies such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink have been actively involved in the development of BCI technology, a graphene-based brain-computer interface.

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics just implanted their BCI cortical interface in a patient undergoing brain tumor resection or removal.

It can differentiate between healthy and cancerous brain tissue with micrometer-scale precision, thereby paving a new way to monitor diseases and rebalance neural networks.

⭐ Mystery of star-made heavy elements solved by breakthrough US research

Researchers just cracked open a star’s core to investigate the nuclear reaction that produces heavy elements known as nucleosynthesis.

A new study sheds light on this mysterious process that creates new atomic nuclei that first happened within minutes of the Big Bang. 

That means the birth, on a cosmic scale, of the periodic table of elements, the foundation of life itself. The new study seeks to illuminate the beginning of everything.

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