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In tests last month, research corneas and a research kidney were successfully delivered by drone between medical facilities in the Las Vegas area. Ryan Henderson (below, left) and Anthony Pucciarella (right) were part of a groundbreaking flight in 2019 to carry a kidney to a patient at a hospital in Baltimore; today they work for MissionGO, the drone delivery company that carried out the Las Vegas testing.(Las Vegas test photo by Phenola Lawrence (REQ). Used by permission. Baltimore flight photo (below) courtesy of University of Maryland Medical Center.)

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Rain International LLC, the seed-powered health company, has licensed a patent application related to the use of seed-based nutrition from the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, a leader in food science discovery and technology. The inventor of this technology isLiangli (Lucy) Yu, Ph.D., an established researcher in food chemistry and molecular human nutrition.

This image shows the exoskeletons of a normal mosquito larva on the left and a mosquito larva with the gooseberry gene edited out on the right. credit: Alys Jarvela/University of Maryland.