“The ‘lesson’ Finley learned here is pretty clear. Power usually wins.”
“In the only human tests, mitochondrial transplants appear to revive and restore heart muscle in infants that was injured in operations to repair congenital heart defects.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html
“Treatment with engineered white cells, called immunotherapy, has been limited because of the difficulty of making viruses to carry the genetic material and the time needed to create them. But researchers now say they have a found a way to use electrical fields, not viruses, to deliver both gene-editing tools and new genetic material into the cell. By speeding the process, in theory a treatment could be available to patients with almost any type of cancer.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/health/gene-editing-cancer.html
“The six-year legal saga is widely seen as a test for how far the United States can reach globally to apply U.S. firms’ intellectual property rights.”
“The law will now be sent for a full reconsideration and debate inside the parliament, during which activists will try and remove the controversial Article 11 and 13. Article 11 has been referred to by campaigners as instituting a ‘link tax’, by forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay to use snippets of content on their own sites. Article 13 adds rules that make tech companies responsible for ensuring any copyrighted material is not spread over their platforms. Those rules could force technology companies to scan through everything their users post and check it doesn’t include copyrighted material.”
“Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/06/22/growing-public-employee-benefits-to-force-school-cuts/
“More than 20 percent of college students use their financial aid money to invest in cryptocurrencies, according to new findings by The Student Loan Report, a website for student loan information.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/college-students-use-financial-aid-money-to-invest-in-bitcoin.html
“Boards with five members would be required to have at least two women, and boards with six or more members would be required to have at least three. Those companies that failed to comply would be fined an amount equal to the average compensation for a board member.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/04/california-gender-quotas-company-boards
“The Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-sears-license-20180629-story.html
“The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days.”