Prof Peter Johnson, National Clinical Director for Cancer at NHS England, told the BBC’s Today Programme it was an exciting development. “Most of the cancer immune treatments we have been using up til now have been about cutting the immune system loose and hoping that it recognises the cancer. This [new treatment] is a way
OMAHA, Neb. — Police officers at Omaha’s largest public school district will no longer use gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, after the superintendent asked to halt the program this week, the mayor said. Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray requested Tuesday that police assigned to the schools, known as school resource officers, no
A cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck reduced the recurrence of melanoma.Credit: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg/Getty A personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma reduced the risk of the cancer returning in a phase III clinical trial, the companies behind the trial announced this week. The vaccine — which relies on the same mRNA technology used to develop
The Sun, Moon, and Earth align on August 12, 2026, to produce a total solar eclipse. When this celestial event last occurred, on April 8, 2024, the path of totality stretched across North America, giving millions the chance to glimpse the Sun’s corona. In 2026, the viewing locales are more limited; only a handful of
It’s going to get a lot harder to let Claude be a ghostwriter for everything from novels to homework. On Monday, Anthropic said new Claude models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into AI-generated text. The watermark doesn’t change the text’s meaning or readability, but travels with it when copied and pasted and “may persist
Dubai: Iran will stop its own attacks as long as the United States does the same, a senior Iranian official said. The United States paused its bombing campaign after President Donald Trump’s advisers told him they were running out of targets and expressed concern about the depletion of the American arsenal. After 13 nights of