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A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients With Vision Loss See Color Again
Source: NPR In a first, doctors injected the gene-editing tool CRISPR directly into cells in patients' eyes. The experiment helped these vision-impaired patients see shapes and colors again.
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CRISPR Revolution: Hypertension-Fighting, Gene-Edited Tomatoes Debut In Japan
Source: American Council on Science and Health Japanese consumers now have access to a genetically engineered -- specifically, a CRISPR-edited -- tomato that can help prevent high blood pressure. Hopefully, it's one of many gene-edited products we'll begin to see in grocery stores around the world.
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Sense of touch and heat research wins Nobel Prize
Source: BBC US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian share the 2021 prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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The Future of Higher Ed Is Occurring at the Margins
Source: Inside Higher Ed Combined, the current trends tell us that, taken as a whole, colleges and universities must brace for five new realities, Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt write.
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Tenure Under Threat in Georgia
Source: Inside Higher Ed Professors within the University System of Georgia say the Board of Regents' policy proposals seek to centralize power and end, not update, tenure.
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A Proclamation on Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2021
Source: The U.S. White House Our Nation is under a constant and ever-increasing threat from malicious cyber actors. Ransomware attacks have disrupted hospitals, schools, police departments, fuel pipelines, food suppliers, and small businesses.
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Is China’s New Personal Information Privacy Law the New GDPR?
Source: Bloomberg Law China’s first comprehensive law for the protection of individual personal information will soon take effect. Foley & Lardner attorney Catherine Zhu says some aspects appear to be based off the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but global companies need to understand the material distinctions between these two privacy protection frameworks.
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