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Art Deco buildings of Chicago.

NEW: Chicago “should explore” a congestion tax like New York City to reduce traffic, Mayor Brandon Johnson said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/07/chi…

wired.com/story/correcti… Francis Collins, the former NIH director, and Progeria researcher, wrote an article for WIRED discussing the transformative potential of base editing and prime editing. The piece was penned in memory of Sam Berns, a remarkable individual who lived with

Oh so they'll also be able to quickly Google the Sigma Aldrich dilution calculator???

First Synthetic Eukaryotic Genome Completed The completion of chromosome synXVI allows scientists to explore new possibilities in metabolic engineering and strain optimization. hubs.li/Q033JvDr0

Cloudy Day makes Chicago look like an island.

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🚨BREAKING: Our report on the first-ever pig kidney xenotransplant in a living human with ESRD is now published in NEJM! A major milestone in transplantation, paving the way for a new era of organ replacement Mass General Transplant Mass General Kidneys eGenesis more: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

The fusion of natural, human, and machine intelligence—a synthesis that I call polyintelligence—promises solutions to some of the world’s most intractable problems. Read more in the linked commentary piece in Fast Company: fastcompany.com/91274947/nouba…

Even FDA employees who were covered by user fees were fired by email yesterday—even though those firings don't save $ for the US government & could delay FDA reviews of new drugs. This was done even before the Senate hearings began for Makary—nominee for new FDA Commissioner

CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach go.nature.com/3Qt68QR

Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes, but hidden complexity continues to surprise them go.nature.com/4hJ8maY

11 children who were blind can now see with gene therapy

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If you want to understand American exceptionalism, take the Chicago architectural boat tour.

My younger sister has CF. Her whole life we have emotionally prepared for her to not make it past her 30s. Now, I will get to see her live a long life, maybe start a family or dive into a career. It makes me sad how we've villainized biomedical science when it has changed lives.

The entire STAT staff is updating this story about layoffs at HHS. There will be a lot of info. But the short version is this: a lot of the people who would keep drugs safe and effective, to protect patients in trials, and to fight bird flu and future pandemics are gone -- even

TIME's new cover: The dire wolf is back after over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species ti.me/4jlJB54

Bro we literally got actual dire wolves before we got Winds of Winter

like clockwork once again andy byford achieved something amazing and paradigm-changing with almost no resources and was immediately undermined by the most dumbass politicians in history