FDA Approves First Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

Chinese University Reviewing Gene Editing Research As Family Discloses Daughter's Death Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A top-tier Chinese university said on July 26 that it is investigating gene editing research by one of its researchers following reports that scientists treated a 6-year-old girl as part of their research, who died during the unprecedented human trial. Molecular model of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), in an undated file image. (Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, one of China's Ivy League-level institutions, said in a statement that it "attaches...

Can Lasers Beat Drone Swarms? The Pentagon Is About To Find Out Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice, The enormous expansion of drone warfare is forcing militaries to reconsider how much ammunition they can afford to fire at relatively cheap targets. The Pentagon is betting that some of that ammunition can be replaced with electricity, selecting four directed-energy systems for operational testing at five U.S. military bases. The Pentagon selected AeroVironment's (NASDAQ: AVAV) Palletized High-Energy Laser, Boeing's (NYSE: BA) Compact Laser Weapon System, Kord Technologies' Firefly high-energy laser and Epirus' Leonidas high-powered...

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited US troops at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday and issued a threat to the Cuban government. Hegseth said that it would be “unwise” for the Cuban government to acquire weapons that could reach the US, saying that it would “be inviting the kind of […]