LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020. The agency approved…
In a world first, regulators in the U.K. approved Crispr’s gene-editing treatment for two blood diseases on Thursday, and CRSP stock surged.
In an exclusive interview with MIT Technology Review, Nadella shares his view of the platform shift for developers.
In San Francisco last week, everyone’s favorite surprise visitor was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
A year ago, scientists generated net energy with a fusion reactor. This is what’s happened since then.
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For some reason the universe is full of stars, galaxies, and life. But it didn’t have to be this way.
Like “Avengers” director Joe Russo, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that fully AI-generated movies and TV shows will be possible within our lifetimes.
A host of AI unveilings over the past few months, in particular OpenAI’s ultra-realistic-sounding text-to-speech engine, have given glimpses into this brave new frontier. But Meta’s announcement today put our AI-generated content future into especially sharp relief — for me at least.
Meta his morning debuted Emu Video, an evolution of the tech giant’s image generation tool, Emu. Given a caption (e.g. “A dog running across a grassy knoll”), image or a photo paired with a description, Emu Video can generate a four-second-long animated clip.
It was inevitable. Amazon, which got its start selling books, is getting into the car business.
The e-commerce giant along with new partner Hyundai announced Thursday at the 2023 LA Auto Show that it will start selling vehicles on its website in the second half of 2024. Hyundai vehicles will be the first vehicles sold on Amazon.com’s U.S. store with other brands following later in the year.
The Amazon car sales section will allow customers to shop for vehicles in their area based on a range of preferences, including model, trim, color, and features, choose their preferred car, and then check out online with their chosen payment and financing options. Customers will be able to buy a vehicle online and then pick it up or have it delivered by their local dealership, according to Amazon.
The devices demonstrated clinical-grade accuracy and introduced novel functionalities not seen in prior research or clinical care.
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Furthering the scope of such examinations, a team of researchers at Northwestern University (NU) is now presenting novel wearable technology much more advanced than the intermittent measures made during periodic medical examinations.
Cerebral small vessel disease is a significant cause of aging-related mental decline and accounts for almost half of all dementia cases globally.
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The research, published in the journal Stem Cell Reports, also suggests a possible drug target to prevent or treat the condition known as cerebral small vessel disease (SVD).
