“U.S. health officials … approved the nation’s first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness.” | learn more
I love this! “Researchers are getting closer to using gene editing for disease treatments and organ transplants.” | learn more
I hadn’t thought about this before, but it makes a lot of sense. “Numerous studies over the past few years have shown that taking fever reducers hurts your body’s ability to recover from an illness.” | learn more
Wired has an excellent writeup of the process that this remarkable technology follows. If you’re at all unclear about it, this will help. | learn more
When you’re up all night, the slowness you feel runs deep – all the way down to the brain cells involve in perception. | learn more
“Researchers discovered that tiny fluctuations in the material could possibly be harnessed to deliver small but unlimited amounts of clean power.” | learn more
One of the challenges of robots is a trade-off between strength and ability to handle fragile items. Clamp down with too much force on an apple, and you have apple sauce. A new design from scientists at MIT and Harvard […]
Neurologists at the University of Rochester have introduced information directly into monkeys’ premotor cortex via electrodes. They taught them to play a game with these signals. Neat stuff! | learn more
The video is at molecular scale, so don’t expect HD quality. Sit back and think for a moment about what you’re watching – this is really cool. | learn more
This really flies in the face of Silicon Valley’s narrative. | learn more