The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here

The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here

So far, only nine centers across the US are currently offering Casgevy, which may limit who gets access to it. Vertex says the number of participating sites will grow in the coming weeks and months. And despite the promise of a pain-free future, the grueling process of getting Casgevy may be a deterrent for some. … Read more

Why investors should look beyond doomsday headlines

Why investors should look beyond doomsday headlines

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a Morning Meeting livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. 1. U.S. stocks climbed higher to start the week, with the S & P 500 reaching another 52-week high on Monday morning. Mega cap technology stocks were bolstering the market, … Read more

Texas Lottery plans to launch contest winners to space; how you can enter

Texas Lottery plans to launch contest winners to space; how you can enter

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A $20 scratch off could be your ticket to space. The Texas Lottery announced this month a new promotion, the “Space Perspective Cash Adventure,” that could send four lucky winners to space. “We’re always looking for these kinds of unique, extraordinary special prizes,” said Ryan Mindell, Deputy Executive Director for the Texas … Read more

A rare dolphin with ‘thumbs’ has been spotted off the coast of Greece – National

A rare dolphin with ‘thumbs’ has been spotted off the coast of Greece – National

One might say this dolphin sticks out like a sore thumb. Researchers studying marine life in the Gulf of Corinth, off the coast of Greece, spotted a very unusual sight this summer, in the form of a dolphin that appears to be growing “thumbs” from its flippers. Researchers with the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute (PCRI) … Read more

Exoplanets’climate — it takes nothing to switch from habitable to hell

Exoplanets’climate — it takes nothing to switch from habitable to hell

The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile sphere that is not only inhospitable but also sterile. However, the difference between the two bears to only a few degrees in temperature. A team of astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), with the … Read more

Europe’s earliest cities relied on fertilizer and plant protein, isotope analysis shows

Europe’s earliest cities relied on fertilizer and plant protein, isotope analysis shows

Life portrait of the Maidanetske mega-settlement. Credit: Susanne Beyer, Kiel University Nutrition in Trypillia mega-sites is currently the focus of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1266 at Kiel University (CAU). In the forest steppe northwest of the Black Sea—today the territory of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine—mega-sites of the Trypillia societies emerged about 6,000 … Read more

‘Graphene will change the world’: the boss using the ‘supermaterial’ in the global microchip war | Manufacturing sector

‘Graphene will change the world’: the boss using the ‘supermaterial’ in the global microchip war | Manufacturing sector

The first thing visitors to Paragraf’s lab, in the Cambridgeshire village of Somersham, are shown is a thin disc made of synthetic sapphire with a piece of graphene taped on to it. This was the first graphene product the company made, and it quickly evolved to a small wafer of 64 tiny graphene devices arranged … Read more