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Gene therapy may cure rare diseases. But drugmakers have few incentives, leaving families desperate
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 day agoRobin Alderman faces an agonizing reality: Gene therapy might cure her son Camden’s rare, inherited...
Researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer
The Register· 5 days agoBoffins at MIT have come up with an amber-like polymer that can be used to preserve DNA, which could allow it to be used for long term storage of...
Artificial intelligence looks at shadows to see what's hidden from view
Boing Boing· 3 days agoResearchers from MIT and Meta have demonstrated a computer vision system that analyzes shadows to...
Takeaways from AP's report on access to gene therapies for rare diseases
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoCollectively, about 350 million people worldwide suffer from rare diseases, most of which are...
Is that chatbot smarter than a 4-year-old? Experts put it to the test | Texarkana Gazette
Texarkana Gazette· 4 days agoLaura Schulz has spent her career trying to unravel one of the most profound human mysteries: how...
Waves on Saturn’s Moon Titan Are Likely Big Enough to Shape Its Shorelines
The Inertia via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSaturn has a whole lot of moons. One stands out among the rest: Titan. New research suggests that...
How I learned to beat my ‘midlife assassin’
MSNBC· 2 days agoBounds, an award-winning journalist, couldn’t get the moment out of her head. Bounds tells that story in her new book, “Not Too Late: The Power of...
Heat Waves Grip 3 Continents as Climate Change Warms Earth - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoAn anonymous reader shares a report: Punishing heat waves gripped three continents on Tuesday, breaking records in cities around the Northern Hemisphere less than two weeks after the Earth recorded ...
We will all pay the price for the gullibility of our elites
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 5 days agoApple briefly became the most valuable company in the world again last week, but this is no...
How primordial black holes could explain the enduring mystery of dark matter - ABC17NEWS
ABC17 NEWS· 5 days agoScientists call that dark matter, because it does not interact with light and is invisible. In the 1970s, American astronomers Vera Rubin and W. Kent Ford confirmed dark matter ...