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Deep in a bacterium’s gelatinous matrix dwell little “cellular machines” called retrons, which produce single strands of DNA to detect certain viral infections. Now for the first time, researchers have used these natural DNA scriptwriters to modify genes in human cells. A new study, published in Nature Chemical Biology, suggests this technique can enhance gene editing across diverse animal groups. Although the well-known CRISPR process has made gene editing much easier in recent years, it “has its own limitations,” says the study’s senior author Seth Shipman, a bioengineer at the University of California, San Francisco. This process introduces an enzyme…
Emily Blunt is set to star in Pain Hustlers from director David Yates. The film is written by Wells Tower (The True American) and tells the story of a high school dropout who lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical startup in a Florida strip mall. She catapults the company into the high life and finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy with deadly consequences. Pain Hustlers is produced by Lawrence Grey through his Grey Matter Productions banner and Wychwood Pictures. Yates is best known for directing the last four films in the Harry Potter franchise, as well…
George Lopez is returning to primetime: NBC has handed a series order to Lopez vs. Lopez, a new sitcom starring the comedian, TVLine has learned. Lopez stars opposite his real-life daughter Mayan Lopez in “a working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between,” per the official description. Selenis Leyva (Orange Is the New Black), Brice Gonzalez and Matt Shively (American Housewife) lead the supporting cast, with Laci Mosley (A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Kiran Deol (Sunnyside) in recurring roles. Debby Wolfe (One Day at a Time) and Bruce Helford (The Conners) will write…
Andy Dick has been arrested in Orange County, California on suspicion of felony sexual battery. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that police were called this morning, May 11th, to a campground in O’Neill Regional Park in Trabuco Canyon after a man alleged he was sexually assaulted. Dick, 56, was arrested, and the victim was taken to a hospital for examination. According to TMZ, Dick and a group of live streamers had been living in the RV park. The arrest was broadcast on creator Captain Content’s RV YouTube channel. This is far from the first time Dick has been accused of sexual misconduct.…
Bernstein has named a raft of global stocks that it says could benefit from the rising strength of the U.S. dollar. Original Source Link
A Florida judge has announced that he will block the electoral map drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis that targets African-Americans. The AP reported: A congressional map approved by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and drawn by his staff is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives, a state judge said Wednesday. Leon County Circuit Judge Layne Smith said he would issue a formal order Thursday or Friday to keep the maps from taking effect in November’s election. He made it clear he would rule in favor of voting rights groups challenging the maps.…
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Zeals, a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 million (3.5 billion yen) in equity and $11.6 million (1.5 billion yen) in debt. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation. JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital, a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. Conversational commerce, a term coined…
A US body in charge of choosing new encryption algorithms that can withstand quantum computers has delayed announcing them due to undisclosed legal reasons, while a team at Google is calling for an immediate switch Technology 11 May 2022 By Matthew Sparkes An artist’s illustration of a quantum computerShutterstock/Bartlomiej K. Wroblewski Undisclosed “legal issues” are preventing the US from announcing which cryptographic algorithms should be used as standard to protect data from future quantum computers. Meanwhile, security experts at Google warn that data being sent today is already at risk and that firms need to prepare themselves to adopt the…
Google’s Pixel 6a has many of the Pixel 6’s top features while saving you $150, but there are some tradeoffs in build quality and the main camera. The Pixel 6a is a cheaper version of Google’s Pixel 6, offering many of the same advancements, including the pure Android experience that Google phones are known for. Naturally, some features have to be dropped or specifications lowered to allow the lower price. While that’s true also for the Pixel 6a, all that matters is that the phone fills the user’s needs. If that can be done at a lower price, that leaves more money to spend on…
Will Conrad be able to move on? On The Resident Season 5 Episode 23 — the season finale — Conrad looks to the past as he prepares for the future. Part of that means looking to the past. As previously reported, Emily VanCamp is returning for the finale as Nic, despite the character being killed off early into The Resident Season 5. TV Line broke the news a month ago that the star would be staging one last comeback. “He hasn’t been able to make a move and find that next love. He knows…
Brooklyn rapper Casanova has pleaded guilty in a federal racketeering case, in which the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York claims the rapper had a “leadership role” in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang. The rapper, whose real name is Caswell Senior, pleaded guilty to one count of “conspiring to conduct and participate in the conduct of the affairs of a criminal enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity” and another count of “conspiring to distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana.” According to the U.S. Attorney’s statement today, Senior admitted with his guilty plea to shooting at…
Electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive maintained its production forecast for 2022, with executives saying the supply-chain problems that have stifled its factory output in recent months are expected to ease later this year. Rivian, which reported quarterly results after the market close Wednesday, said revenue for the first quarter was $95 million, below Wall Street expectations. Original Source Link
A devastating report indicates nearly two-thirds of Americans are being forced to live paycheck-to-paycheck in the Biden economy, as inflation continued apace at 8.3% in April, exceeding expert predictions and remaining at a 40-year high. The consumer price index, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics accelerated 8.3% year-over-year in April, a slight dip from March’s 8.5% but still higher than the Dow Jones estimate of 8.1%. Even removing food and energy prices, the core CPI still rose 6.2%. And what’s worse, CNBC reports, “workers continued to lose ground” in the Biden economy as “real wages adjusted for inflation decreased…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 House Republicans are calling on the Biden Administration and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately address the ongoing baby formula shortage that has left parents scrambling to feed their infants. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee led a letter with 106 GOP lawmakers to the White House and the FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf Wednesday seeking data on the nationwide shortages and demanding answers as to what the Administration is doing to address the empty store shelves. “This issue is a matter of life and death,…
For years, tech companies have relied on something called the Fitzpatrick scale to classify skin tones for their computer vision algorithms. Originally designed for dermatologists in the 1970s, the system comprises only six skin tones, a possible contributor to AI’s well-documented failures in identifying people of color. Now Google is beginning to incorporate a 10-skin tone standard across its products, called the Monk Skin Tone (MST) scale, from Google Search Images to Google Photos and beyond. The development has the potential to reduce bias in data sets used to train AI in everything from health care to content moderation.Google first…