BOSTON — Gold nanoparticles in an oral suspension helped patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) preserve ocular and overall function when added to standard medications in a phase II trial, a researcher said here. Those assigned to the product, dubbed CNM-Au8, saw an improvement in low-contrast letter acuity (LCLA) of 3.13 letters relative to a […]

Finally, researchers may have ways to combat a deadly respiratory illness. The disease is not the flu or COVID-19, but respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The virus was first identified in 1957 in Baltimore, but it has probably been around for millennia, says Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, a virologist and transplant immunologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer […]

Much of the world has been transfixed in recent months by the appearance of text generation engines such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms capable of producing text that seems as if it were written by a human. While tech companies like Microsoft and Google are focused on using such engines as a way […]