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Most people who study computer science finish the degree. Akam Hamak got within a single year of his and walked away. The decision looks reckless from the outside and, on closer inspection, is one of the more calculated moves he has made. By the time he was in university, Hamak was already building. He had taught himself to code as a teenager, taken payment in...

Researchers from Cambridge University’s Gurdon Institute have made significant progress towards the replication of  human sperm cells in the lab. Their work, which employed miniature artificial testicles to support cell development, is a vast improvement on past endeavors. In fact, the breakthrough is a significant milestone, a “halfway point” in the development of viable artificial sperm cells, with some suggesting that one day the technology...