A New York architecture firm is turning to an age simulation suit to let its designers experience the physical impairments of old age while navigating public spaces, like airports.
First PA Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway
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This could be a crucial year for the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR as Pennsylvania researchers start testing it in patients to treat diseases such as cancer, blindness and sickle cell disease.
Weill Cornell Researchers Find High Fructose Corn Syrup Feeds Colon Tumors
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“The sugar is being directly eaten by the tumor, and the tumor can use that sugar to grow.”
Computer Problems, Weather Cause Major Flight Delays In New York
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The FAA says the issue that affected Southwest, Delta and other carriers has been resolved. But with hundreds of flights affected, the delays could linger.
New York Woman Wants To Create This: *Insert Afro Emoji Here*
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Writer Rhianna Jones is petitioning the Unicode Consortium for an emoji of a person with an Afro.
Affordable Care Act
Rep. Delgado Wants More Practicality In Broadband Access
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New York has a program that aims to expand access across the state. But NY-19 Congressman Antonio Delgado said some practical changes to implementing broadband could help speed things along.
Man Pleads Guilty In New York To Fleecing Facebook And Google Of $100 Million
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Evaldas Rimasauskas admitted to his role in helping to orchestrate a two-year-long scam that tricked employees into wiring more than $100 million to his own company’s bank accounts.
PA Researchers: Human Genomics Research Has A Diversity Problem
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Studies on the genetics of human diseases have focused largely on people of European descent. Pennsylvania Researchers say this lack of diversity is bad science and exacerbates health inequities.
Energy
Japan Looks Beyond Electric Cars And Envisions A ‘Hydrogen Society’
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The country has ambitious goals to become the “hydrogen society,” and right now, the focus is on its automakers.
News
‘Hyperloop’ Cargo From Philly To Pittsburgh? It May Not Be Far-Fetched
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Envision commercial goods packed in giant capsules and moving in vacuum-sealed steel tubes hurtling from one end of the state to the other in under a half hour.
binghamton
New Smoke Detector Law Takes Effect April 1
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A lot of people may have been busy changing out batteries in their smoke detectors, but New York state is moving away from selling those kinds of devices.