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Baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug
The researchers used a new version of CRISPR technology, called base editing, that can replace a single letter…
The Download: Montana’s experimental treatments, and Google…
The news: A bill that allows clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana. Under the…
Research cuts are threatening crucial climate data
But long-running government programs that monitor the snowpack across the West are among those being threatened…
Google DeepMind’s new AI agent uses large language models to crack…
“You can see it as a sort of super coding agent,” says Pushmeet Kohli, a vice president at Google DeepMind who…
The Download: Taking the temperature of snow, and the future of privacy
The Sierra’s frozen reservoir provides about a third of California’s water and most of what comes out of the…
The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
The idea that individuals have a right to access experimental treatments has in fact failed in US courts in the…
Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
The pair of climate researchers from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, skied down to this…
The Download: CRISPR in court, and the police’s ban-skirting AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play
In patent law, this moment is known as conception—the instant a lightbulb appears over an inventor’s head,…
Police tech can sidestep facial recognition bans now
Companies like Flock and Axon sell suites of sensors—cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors,…