Written by .Merck & Co.’s long-running initiative to land a strike on little cell lung cancer (SCLC) has acquired a small triumph. The drugmaker’s Daiichi Sankyo-partnered antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) ifinatamab deruxtecan (I-DXd) revealed potential in the setting, providing motivation as a late-stage test advances.SCLC is one of the growth styles where Merck’s Keytruda fell short, leading the […]
Investing in an Era of an Aging Population The U.S. is experiencing an aging population. By 2070, the number of people over 65 will outnumber children, making retirement planning crucial. This graphic, created in partnership with New York Life Investments, gives context to how this long-term trend in demographics unfolded over the last few decades. […]
One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US in 2013. That implant involved larger electrodes that were placed on top of the retina. Its manufacturer, Second Sight, stopped producing the device in 2020 due to financial difficulties. Neuralink and some others, meanwhile, are […]
Lisa Dyson is the founder of one of these startups, Air Protein. When she talks about the inspiration for her company, she often cites NASA research from the 1960s. Back then the agency, hoping to keep astronauts satiated on long-haul space journeys, explored the idea of growing bacterial cuisine on board before concluding, ultimately, that […]
Do you want to order pizza, tacos, or an orb that will collect your biometric data? The latter may soon be an option in Mexico thanks to a partnership between the delivery application Rappi and Worldcoin, a project that uses data-collection globes to construct a database it hopes will one day be used to verify […]