New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy

While the Novartis trial was happening, Lustig and others were working on ways to restore hearing in genetic forms of hearing loss. In 2019, Lustig and his collaborators showed that OTOF gene therapy could be used to restore hearing in mice lacking the otoferlin protein. A separate group in Germany published similar findings in 2021, … Read more

Today on Sky Sports Racing: Charlie Johnston team aim for Lingfield success | Racing News

The Charlie Johnston team will be hoping Fox Flame can bring up the hat-trick at Lingfield on Thursday, live on Sky Sports Racing. 5.45 Lingfield – Fox Flame goes for Johnston team Fox Flame ought to go well for the Charlie Johnston team in the hat-trick bid for the Download The At The Races App … Read more

Meta takes goal at Twitter with the launch of rival app Threads

Meta unveiled an app to rival Twitter on Wednesday, showing to focus on customers on the lookout for a substitute for the social media platform owned — and steadily modified — by Elon Musk. Known as Threads, the brand new providing is billed as a text-based model of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram that the corporate … Read more

Meta takes goal at Twitter with the launch of rival app Threads

LONDON — Meta unveiled an app to rival Twitter on Thursday, showing to focus on customers in search of an alternative choice to the social media platform owned — and steadily modified — by Elon Musk. Referred to as Threads, the brand new providing is billed as a text-based model of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram … Read more

UK’s Moonfire VC raises its second fund at $115M to purpose at early stage startups

It was again within the Pandemic period of 2021 that we reported on the launch of Moonfire, on the time a $60 million “Fund I” seed-stage “data-driven” VC geared across the new world of distant working and distant pitching. It’s new $115 million fund-raise (“Fund II”) plans to proceed what it calls its “data-driven” strategy. … Read more