Techlife News - USA (2020-12-12)

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Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders ...

and are free from pain crises that plagued their lives before. Victoria Gray, the first patient in the sickle cell study, had lo ...

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In the womb, fetuses make a special type of hemoglobin. After birth, when babies breathe on their own, a gene is activated that ...

Separately, Dr. David Williams of Harvard-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital gave partial results from a study testing a nove ...

Government grants paid for the work. Williams is named on a patent for the therapy, which Boston Children’s has licensed to Blue ...

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A new report by a National Academy of Sciences committee has found that “directed” microwave radiation is the likely cause of il ...

cognitive difficulties. It found this explanation was more likely than other previously considered causes such as tropical disea ...

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Between late 2016 and May 2018, several U.S. and Canadian diplomats in Havana complained of health problems from an unknown caus ...

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Australia’s government will reveal legislation in Parliament on Wednesday that would make Facebook and Google pay for journalism ...

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“This is a huge reform,” Frydenberg told reporters. “This is a world first. And the world is watching what happens here in Austr ...

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“All we have ever sought is a fair commercial outcome and fair payment for the valuable news content our journalists create,” Mi ...