In a lab at ETH Zurich, muscle biologist Ori Bar-Nur is growing beef without the cow. His team cultivates meat from bovine cells using advanced tissue engineering techniques – but regulatory approval is still needed before anyone can take a bite.
Isabelle Mansuy explains in an article of the New Yorker, why there is no causal evidence that epigenetic factors in germ cells are responsible for transgenerational inheritance in humans.
Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger explains in an article in swissinfo how drug prices are regulated in Switzerland and why drug prices in Europe can't just rise at the flip of a switch.
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