Metal complexes show a fascinating behavior in their interactions with light, which for example is utilized in organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, quantum computers, or even in cancer therapy. In many of these applications, the electron spin, a kind of inherent rotation of the electrons, plays an important role. Recently, the chemists Sebastian Mai and Leticia González from the Faculty…
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Trauma Counselors Were Pressured To Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims
Sam Biddle, reporting for The Intercept: Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around the clock to screen and scrub some the most gruesome, hateful, and heinous posts that make their way onto the social network and its photo-sharing subsidiary, Instagram. They are required to view as many as…
CRISPR enters its first human clinical trials
The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crispr-gene-editor-first-human-clinical-trials4…
The Law Isn’t Ready For Psychedelic Medicine
Matt Lamkin reports via Scientific American: In March, the Food and Drug Administration approved esketamine, a drug that produces psychedelic effects, to treat depression — the first psychedelic ever to clear that bar. Meanwhile the FDA has granted “breakthrough therapy” status — a designation that enables fast-tracked research — to study MDMA (also called “ecstasy”) as a treatment for post-traumatic stress…
Combining two cancer drugs could help slow growth of tumours
Breast tumours grow at a slower rate in mice if the animals are given one drug to block cancer cell division and another that prevents therapy resistance Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209658-combining-two-cancer-drugs-could-help-slow-growth-of-tumours/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Imperial College London Tackles a Big Question for Hepatitis C in China, India, and Pakistan
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health scourge, infecting more than 70 million people worldwide and ultimately causing liver complications including cirrhosis and cancer in 10-20% of cases. HCV was responsible for more than 475,000 deaths worldwide in 2015, and future cases are projected to expand most in China, India, and Pakistan. […]
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Gene-silencing drug for rare hereditary disorder approved for NHS use
A therapy that uses RNA interference to treat the rare condition hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis has been approved for NHS use in England Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209128-gene-silencing-drug-for-rare-hereditary-disorder-approved-for-nhs-use/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Researchers Have Eliminated HIV In Mice For the First Time
pgmrdlm shares a report from USA Today: Researchers say they’ve successfully eliminated HIV from the DNA of infected mice for the first time, bringing them one step closer to curing the virus in humans. Scientists from Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were able to eliminate the virus using a combination of gene-editing technology and a slow-release antiviral…
Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?
Some mice receiving a therapy that includes CRISPR gene editing appear to have been cured of HIV, but safety concerns must be overcome before human trials Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208261-have-mice-really-been-cured-of-hiv-using-crispr-gene-editing/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Gut microbes interfere with Parkinson’s drug – but we could stop them
We have identified organisms in the gut that break down the main drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease, a step towards making the therapy more effective Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206501-gut-microbes-interfere-with-parkinsons-drug-but-we-could-stop-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…