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A Current Gene Therapy Method Improves Night Vision in Adults with Congenital Blindness, Scientists Suggest

Macro Woman Eye. Credit: Dantesattic/iStock  University of Pennsylvania researchers' ground-breaking form to develop night vision in grown-ups with congenital blindness will bring one spurt to ophthalmology: a gene therapy. As UPenn stated, adults with a genetic way of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving experimental gene treatment, according to scientists...

My Hero Academia: Netflix Attempts Film Adaptation

Credit: Viz Media Netflix is making another live-action anime adaptation, and this time, it's adapting the well-known anime, My Hero Academia. In a statement on its website, the streaming company says filmmaker Shinsuke Sato (I Am a Hero, Kingdom) will act as the director, while Obi-Wan Kenobi producer Joby Harold is writing the script. My Hero...

AI Is Able To Spot Diseases Before Symptons Appear

Credit: Medtronic An early diagnosis means early treatment and a better chance of a positive result. Patient end results are often better when a disease is diagnosed and also cured early; however, some diseases do not trigger symptons until a patient is already sick-- ovarian cancer, for instance, can go undiscovered for ten years or...

Nasa’s Orion spacecraft is Heading Home

Orion passed a mere 130km (80 miles) from the lunar surface at closest approach. Credit: Nasa The US space agency's Orion capsule is coming home The spacecraft performed a significant engine burn on Monday in the vicinity of the Moon, giving it an orbit that will result in a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. It...

A Memory Prosthesis Can Restore Memory in Individuals with Damaged Brains

Wake forest medical center Brain electrodes developed to mimic the hippocampus appear to increase the encoding of memories-- and are two times as effective in people with bad memory. A singular form of brain stimulation seems to boost people's capability to remember new details-- by imitating how our brains create memories. Memory prosthesis The "memory prosthesis," which includes...

Study Reveals How Naturally-Occurring Coumpound Eliminates Significant Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers examining the effects of an organic compound on drug resistance bacteria have found how it could impede and exterminate a germ that causes extreme sickness or sometimes fatalities. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a kind of microorganism usually discovered in patients, which can cause infections in the blood, lungs (pneumonia), or...

The Function of Nutrient Might Reveal in Fight Against Microbial Infections

Helicobacter pylori medical illustration A nutrient that is prevalent in the human diet has been discovered to aid the survival of a cancer-causing microorganism, a recent Yale research discovers. The findings could disclose an essential target for new drugs to tackle numerous contagious diseases in human beings. The nutrient, called ergothioneine, or EGT, an identified antioxidant,...

Scientists Discover Breast Cancer Protein that Could Anticipate Chemotherapy Sensitivity

Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells, with DNA stained blue and a protein in the cell surface membrane stained green. Credit: NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Scientists have determined a protein that, when present in significant quantities in breast cancer tumors, is a signal of whether DNA-damaging...

NASA Moon Mission ‘Surpassing’ Expectations

NASA's Orion spacecraft en route for the Moon, with the Earth in the background, in a photo released by NASA in November 2022. Exceeding expectations On the third day after taking off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "surpassing effectiveness expectations," NASA officials stated on Friday. First flight aims to ensure vehicle safety The...

Why Do Bat Viruses Keep Contaminating People?

Landmark research shows 'spillover' mechanism for the rare but fatal Hendra viruses. Australian flying foxes host a virus called Hendra, which has spilled over into people and can cause a rare but deadly respiratory infection.Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group/Getty " Hey, men, could you open your wings and show me?" states Peggy Eby, looking up at a...