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Some have argued that these laws have been driven by a dislike of both drug regulation and the FDA. After all, they are designed to achieve the same result as the compassionate use program. The only difference is that they bypass the FDA. Either way, it’s worth noting just how early-stage these treatments are. A […]

The researchers used a new version of CRISPR technology, called base editing, that can replace a single letter of DNA at a specific location.  Previous versions of CRISPR have generally been used to delete genes, not rewrite them to restore their function. The researchers say they were looking for a patient to treat when they […]

“You can see it as a sort of super coding agent,” says Pushmeet Kohli, a vice president at Google DeepMind who leads its AI for Science teams. “It doesn’t just propose a piece of code or an edit, it actually produces a result that maybe nobody was aware of.” In particular, AlphaEvolve came up with […]

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play The CRISPR patents are back in play. Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and […]

Learn from the experts Digital transformation, from the ground up, starts by moving infrastructure and data to the cloud AI implementation requires a talent transformation at scale, across the organization AI is a company-wide initiative—everyone in the company will become either an AI creator or consumer Featured speakers Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar, Chief Technology Officer, Infosys Rafee is Infosys’s […]