The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma is being tested in British patients. The “gamechanger” jab also has the potential to stop bladder, lung and kidney cancer. It’s custom built for each person and tells the body to identify cancer cells and stops the disease returning. A stage-two trial found it significantly reduced the risk of cancer coming ...
There’s a trade war brewing between China and the West, at stake is who will dominate the global market for electric vehicles. Outside the port city of Ningbo, Chinese car company Zeekr is rolling out luxury EVs and growing fast. The factory has only been up and running for three years, but this year it’s more than doubling production. Zeekr ...
Cows in the UK are not being tested for bird flu, despite the outbreak sweeping through American dairy herds, Sky News has been told. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said reports of the H5N1 virus in UK birds and poultry are currently so low that it does not consider cattle to be at risk. Scientists believe ...
A high school athletics director has been accused of using AI to create a fake recording of the principal going on a racist and antisemitic rant. Dazhon Darien allegedly impersonated Eric Eiswert’s voice with artificial intelligence, in a clip that went viral and was widely shared on social media. In the forged audio, it sounded as if the principal had said ...
A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted. Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and kidney failure had left her too ill to qualify for a traditional transplant. The 54-year-old, from New Jersey, became the first woman and only the second patient ever ...
Young girls in the UK drink, smoke and vape more than boys, a major study suggests. England is also “top of the charts” globally for child alcohol abuse, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) research of 44 countries. In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers examined data on 280,000 children aged 11, 13 and 15. They ...
Shares in Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have fallen sharply after the company revealed it had raised its cost forecast for the current year. Investors sent the stock 10% lower in after-hours trading in New York when Meta‘s first-quarter results showed further bills were expected to fund new artificial intelligence (AI) products and the infrastructure behind them. ...
A spaceport that hopes to launch the first rockets vertically into orbit from British soil has been given a crucial safety licence. SaxaVord Spaceport, which is on the northern tip of the Shetland Islands, will be allowed to clear and control a hazard area downrange of the launchpad to reduce the risks to aircraft and shipping. The Civil Aviation Authority ...
Most plant-based meat and dairy alternatives have lower levels of saturated fat and higher fibre than their animal-derived counterparts, researchers have found. They also have substantially lower environmental impacts, including lower greenhouse gas emissions, use of water resources and land use, according to a review of evidence on plant-based alternatives to meat, cheese, eggs and yoghurt. Researchers from the London ...
More than half of the world’s population could be at risk of catching diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as malaria and dengue by the end of the century, scientists have warned. Mosquito-borne outbreaks, driven by global warming, will spread to parts of northern Europe and other regions of the world over the next few decades, the experts said. In the ...