The first CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex collaboration to treat sickle cell disease (SCD), as well as β-thalassemia, was placed on a clinical hold by the FDA earlier this year. The stock for CRISPR Therapeutics and other gene editing companies have been … Continue reading First CRISPR-Cas9 Human Trial Lifted from Clinical Hold
As companies like Waymo rush to develop and release fully autonomous vehicles onto our roadways, companies like Ike prefer the microscopic focus of no-turn highway hauling. Long haul and not-as-long haul trucking is still a huge industry which is why … Continue reading Self Driving Truck Startup Ike Targets The Low Hanging Fruit of the Industry
Honda has announced it has invested $750 million in GM’s self driving car startup Cruise and will contribute another $2 billion over the next decade or so. This comes after Honda’s estimates for having fully self driving cars on the … Continue reading Honda Plays Self Driving Catch Up By Investing Big in GM’s Cruise
Japan’s health and science ministries has created a draft proposal for turning the country’s current lack of position on editing human embryos to a position which encourages the practice. The draft proposal would still restrict editing human embryos bound for … Continue reading Japan to Promote Editing DNA of Human Embryos
Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento are the first to experience what is expected to be the next big thing in wireless internet with installations having started on October 1st. Although Verizon’s 5G implementation uses a custom standard that isn’t … Continue reading Verizon First to Bring 5G to Homes in 4 US Cities
Scientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York have used CRISPR-Cas9 to increase the size and production capacity of the groundcherry (Physalis pruinosa), a fruit native to the American tropics. The researchers are confident that they can use … Continue reading CRISPR Creates New Type of Cherry (Sort of)
Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has released video footage of its newest humanoid robot the HRP-5P performing tasks associated with drywall installation. Japan has long been seeking to develop capable humanoid robots due to their aging population and restrictive immigration … Continue reading Japan Seeks to Replace Construction Workers with its HRP-5P
NASA has announced it’s rough plan for creating a permanent human presence on the Moon and a series of journeys to Mars. The plan includes the offload of as much low-Earth orbit activities as possible to commercial companies such as … Continue reading NASA Unveils Updated Plan for Sustained Presence on the Moon and Trip to Mars
The fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has now been revealed to have backing from the investment fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures which is back by the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is an … Continue reading Commonwealth Fusion Systems is Being Backed by Mega Names… and Cash
This week, Pimax announced they have started to ship their highly anticipated virtual reality headsets, the 8K and 5K+, to those who backed the kickstarter campaign early on. These headsets are notable for their much wider field of view (FOV) … Continue reading Pimax Begins Shipping 8K & 5K+ Wide FOV VR Headsets to Early Backers
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