By Ed YongFeatures correspondent
Getty Images(Copyright: Getty Images)Some animals have the ability to grow new arms and legs. Can we learn their secrets and duplicate them in humans?
In Spider-Man comics, scientist Curt Connors injects himself with a serum based on lizard DNA and re-grows his amputated arm. He also transforms into a giant humanoid lizard and becomes evil. Unfortunate side-effects aside, the Lizard’s story reflects a real and longstanding scientific quest – to understand the extraordinary regenerative powers of animals, and duplicate them in humans. Read More...
Explore More A Florida woman has been charged withkilling Kim Kardashian-lookalike Christina Ashten Gourkani with an illicit backroom butt-lift.
Vivian Alexandra Gomez, 50, was busted at Fort Lauderdale Airport on April 20 – hours after the curvaceous 44-year-old OnlyFans star died of cardiac arrest in a California hospital, online records show.
Gomez has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and practicing medicine without a license, both felonies.
She was being held without bail in her home state awaiting extradition to Burlingame, the California city where Gourkani — also known as Ashten G — got the fatal treatment in a hotel room, according to officials. Read More...
“Babysitter,” “nanny,” “caregiver,” “au pair” — we have many names for the people we welcome into our homes to tend what is most precious to us. As parents know, it’s a relationship fraught with anxiety, caught up in our need to work and our hunger for freedom. In a world without butlers and liverymen and cooks, the babysitter is the only domestic employee most of us will ever hire. How should we regard this person we’re so proud to pay a tad more than minimum wage, this almost-relative who might see our child walk for the first time? Read More...