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US, UK approve gene editing therapy to treat inherited blood disease, sickle cell disease

SYDNEY, Dec.18 (PTI): A new gene therapy has just been approved as a treatment for the inherited blood disease, sickle cell disease, in the UK and the US. What makes this therapy unique is that it uses a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, which allows for precise and efficient editing of the genetic code. But this doesn’t mean human gene modification is about to go viral. Rather, this is a safe and sensible technology that has the power to help the 3,00,000 babies born with sickle cell disease each year and the nearly 10 million people estimated to suffer from

India needs to address issues like malnutrition to become a developed country: Raghuram Rajan

HYDERABAD, Dec. 18 (PTI): India needs to address problems like malnutrition to become a developed nation and also focus on its most important asset of human capital, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said. Speaking at an interactive session on a book co-authored by him at the Indian School of Business (ISB) here on Sunday, he asked how the country can become a developed one when malnutrition is prevalent. “We are fixated with becoming a developed, rich country by 2047. I use this as an example to say, you must be joking about becoming a developed rich country by 2047

Bureaucrat’s son, 2 others held for injuring social media influencer with SUV

THANE, Dec. 17 (PTI): Three persons, including the son of a senior Maharashtra bureaucrat, were arrested late Sunday night for allegedly injuring a woman social media influencer in Thane earlier this week, a police official said. Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Mahesh Patil identified the three as Ashwajit Gaikwad, Romil Patel and Sagar Shedge. “The three were held at 8:50pm. A Mahindra Scorpio and a Landrover that were allegedly used in the incident have been seized. Kasarwadavali police is probing further,” Patil said on his message to the media. The 26-year-old woman, Priya Singh, was seriously injured when she was

Eating after 9pm might raise your risk of a stroke by 28%

Dec. 17, 2023(Mirror): Eating your dinner after 9pm may increase the risk of suffering a stroke or mini-stroke by as much as 28 per cent, new research has revealed. Scientists in France have unearthed evidence that eating before 8pm might be better for you after a seven year study looked at the health of over 100,000 people in relation to what time they ate dinner. Researchers looked at food diaries kept by participants in the massive study between 2009 and 2022 which tracked their mealtimes on weekdays and on weekends. The researchers found that about a third of people in

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