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Scientists Have Found A Way To Switch Off The Hepatitis B Virus, Without Cutting DNA

The therapy has now entered human trials. A Phase 1/2 clinical trial has begun in Hong Kong, with authorisation also granted in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The first patient has already been dosed.

AI Is Designing New Proteins. DeepMind Wants To Put A Watermark On Them.

Watermarking AI-designed proteins before they leave the digital world, embedding a hidden signature that marks them as machine-made.

The AI Telling Farmers When To Harvest

AI that forecast ideal harvest dates, taking into account the weather, would be useful. "You need to know more than just when your fruit is going to be ripe. How long do you have to pick it?

The Immune System Is Killing The Brain In Alzheimer's, And Scientists Just Found A Way To Stop It

This is mouse data, and Alzheimer's has a long and humbling history of results that looked transformative in rodents and failed in humans. Longer-term studies are needed to confirm that protecting brain tissue in the short term translates into sustained cognitive benefit.

The Startup That Wants To Beam Power Between Satellites With Lasers

A prototype satellite designed to test something that has never been done before: beaming power from one spacecraft to another using lasers.

NASA Is Sending Robots To The Moon, And They Walk On Two Legs

Valkyrie is already over a decade old. The question is no longer whether humanoid robots can work in space, it's how capable, reliable, and trustworthy they can be made before the next generation of lunar missions needs them.

Stanford Built A Virtual Biotech Company With 37,000 AI Employees, And It's Already Finding Cancer Treatments

Drug discovery is one of humanity's most expensive and least efficient processes. It takes over a decade, costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and still fails 90% of the time — most drug candidates that enter clinical trials never reach patients.

The Next Big AI Problem Isn't Intelligence, It's Society

The past decade of AI has been defined by a race to build smarter individual systems. The next decade will be defined by a harder and stranger challenge: ensuring that millions of autonomous agents can operate together safely, fairly, and effectively.

The Virtual Cell That Could End Cancer Treatment Guesswork

A tool that narrows the guesswork, even partially, is worth building on. ProteinTalks is not yet that tool. But it's a credible step toward it.

Researchers Find Prostate Cancer Treatment That Is ‘as Effective As’ Surgery

New data suggests some patients can have a highly targeted form of radiotherapy instead of having their whole prostate removed.

Focusing On The 'obesity Paradox' To Improve Cancer Treatment Success

The link between obesity and immunotherapy may have less to do with body weight than previously thought and more to do with how diet and gut bacteria work together to influence the immune system.

Expert Says Blood Cancer Care Is Moving Past Chemotherapy

Immunotherapy is becoming the standard for diseases such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.