January 14, 2022
(STAT News) – CAR-T cell therapy has been a boon for treating blood cancers. Since the technology was first brought to the clinic, CAR-T has offered patients months or years of life after they had exhausted all other treatment options … Read More
January 13, 2022
(Wall Street Journal) – Officials serving at U.S. diplomatic missions in Geneva and Paris are suspected to have been afflicted with the mysterious neurological ailment known as Havana Syndrome and at least one was evacuated back to the U.S. for … Read More
January 12, 2022
(Science) – The procedure, done by a team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), was a major test for several experimental innovations designed to keep the pig heart functioning in a human chest, including 10 genetic changes … Read More
January 11, 2022
(BBC) – A US man has become the world’s first person to get a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. 57-year-old David Bennett, who doctors say was too ill to qualify for a human heart, is doing well three … Read More
January 10, 2022
(Associated Press) – In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. … Read More
January 4, 2022
(Axios) – Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of blood-testing company Theranos, on Monday was found guilty of conspiracy and fraud against certain investors by a California jury. Why it matters: Holmes was the poster child of Silicon Valley … Read More
January 3, 2022
(New York Times) – Ms. Geller had been misled by a wondrous promise that Silicon Valley has made to expectant mothers: that a few vials of their blood, drawn in the first trimester, can allow companies to detect serious developmental … Read More
December 29, 2021
(Undark) – To help streamline the work, Wishart and his colleagues used a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning to create an algorithm that identifies potential designer drugs that may not yet even exist. The millions of chemicals identified … Read More
December 23, 2021
(Wired) – According to multiple studies, one in three pregnancies results in miscarriage, and one in 33 babies that are born will have a birth defect, due to the embryo forming incorrectly in the womb. Studying how the embryo develops … Read More
December 15, 2021
(Gizmodo) – Scientists are inching closer to a major breakthrough in organ donation. This week, researchers at New York University announced that they transplanted a pig kidney to a human for the second time with no short-term issues, following their … Read More
