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Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs - WIRED   

In a first, researchers in China have used pigs to grow early-stage kidneys made up of mostly human cells. The advance is a step closer to producing organs in animals that could one day be transplanted to people.

More than 100,000 people in the United States are on the national transplant waiting list, and 17 people across the country die each day waiting for a donor organ, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Kidneys are the most in demand, with nearly 89,000 Americans needing one as of September.

In the current study, a team led by scientists at Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health injected more than 1,800 pig embryos with human stem cells and then transferred them into the wombs of 13 female pigs. They allowed the chimeric embryos to grow for up to 28 days, then stopped the pregnancies to remove and examine the embryos. They collected five, which all had kidneys that were developing normally and contained up to 65 percent human cells. The research was published September 7 in the journal Cell Stem Cell. (The study authors didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for an interview.)

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He was tortured for standing up for Ukraine. Now he lives alone in a forest - The Economist   

When Oleh Halaziuk, 58, was locked up in a prison cell for over two years in the city of Donetsk, he would watch dandelion seeds float on the breeze outside and dream of freedom. That was his second stint in captivity. During his first, in 2014, he was tortured and sexually assaulted after being kidnapped by Russia-directed militants, who had seized control of the Donetsk region of Ukraine and formed a breakaway statelet. Three years later, in 2017, he was prosecuted and imprisoned by the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) on charges that included spying. He knew that he could not stay in the DNR if he ever got out of prison, given his record of pro-Ukrainian agitation. Instead, he vowed that he would drift on the wind like a seed and settle wherever it carried him.

“That turned out to be here,” Halaziuk said. We were standing in a nature reserve on the eastern bank of the Dnipro river – around 100km from Kyiv – in a small, hard-to-reach clearing he created himself. Behind us was a dugout, 2.5 square metres, carved into a sandbank overlooking the water and surrounded by pines and pampas grass. The bunker was barely visible from a distance but for the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag flying above it.

This is Fort Freedom, as Halaziuk has named it. After being released from prison in 2019, he began building the fort over the course of nine months in 2020. He chose a place where he could see the sun set over the Dnipro: the reds and oranges streaking across the indigo sky are “beauty itself”, he told me. The only sound on the day of my visit was the lapping of the river on the shore below the shelter and the ticking of three clocks on the wall, each telling a slightly different time.

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8 In 10 Women Married To Men Still Take Husband’s Last Name, Survey Finds - Forbes   

Almost four out of five women who marry men still adhere to tradition and adopt their husbands' names, according to a new survey. The name-changing practice is deeply rooted in history, when women had few rights and were prohibited from owning property.

A Pew Research Center survey questioned women who were married to men and found that 79% changed their name to their husband's. Of the remaining women, 14% kept their surname after saying "I do," and an additional 5% hyphenated their name with their spouse's name. The survey did not analyze the name-changing preferences of same-sex couples.

The researchers found that younger women, white women, and women with a post-graduate degree were the most likely to keep their last name after marriage. In addition, Democratic women were twice as likely as their Republican counterparts to stick with their names post-nuptials.

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