A remarkable transplant + Russian billionaire seeks to uncover alien life

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A Remarkable Transplant
https://futurism.com/first-baby-born-uterus-transplant/

EXCERPT: In a first for the United States, a woman with a transplanted uterus has given birth. The baby was born at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and remains safe and healthy after the event. This is the first success for Baylor’s ongoing uterus transplant clinical trial, which works with patients with absolute uterine factor infertility — meaning their uterus either doesn’t exist or doesn’t work at all....

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A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien Life
https://futurism.com/russian-billionaire...lien-life/

EXCERPT: In recent months, Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has emerged as a top priority in the search for alien life. NASA has announced plans to send a robot to the icy moon in order to carry out an investigation — but the agency might be beaten to the punch by a Russian billionaire.

[...Yuri...] Milner is planning on sending an inexpensive probe to Enceladus with a goal of finding life in the geysers that shoot from its surface. He thinks that a mission backed by a major space agency might take as least as long as a decade to materialize.

Milner asserts that his endeavor could serve as a supplementary study that would help facilitate a later expedition carried out by NASA. Commercial companies are already making huge advances in terms of space tourism and the rockets we’ll use to get astronauts to the ISS, so it makes a lot of sense that other aspects of space exploration are funded by private citizens....

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In recent months, Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has emerged as a top priority in the search for alien life.

I read somewhere that spacecraft have been directed through the Enceladus plumes and found them to be water vapor with a trace of interesting organics. The latter weren't slam-dunk evidence of life, but did indicate the presence of a heat source somewhere under the moon's icy surface that could drive organic chemistry. So the thinking is that there may be a liquid water sea under the ice along with something like ocean floor thermal vents. And that resembles one of the hypothetical scenarios for the origin of life on Earth.

[...Yuri...] Milner is planning on sending an inexpensive probe to Enceladus with a goal of finding life in the geysers that shoot from its surface... Milner asserts that his endeavor could serve as a supplementary study that would help facilitate a later expedition carried out by NASA.

Yeah, the next logical step would seem to be to get more sophisticated automated chemical analysis abilities up there sampling the plumes for signatures of chemicals more indicative of life.