How One Round of Gene Therapy Fixed 48 Kids’ Immune Systems

This week on SingularityHub [SingluarityHub-rss-feed-logo]( Weekly Newsletter [How One Round of Gene Therapy Fixed 48 Kids’ Immune Systems]( [gene therapy ADA-SCID genetics health] Gene therapy has shown promise in recent years for treating a range of diseases, including sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia, various forms of inherited blindness, mesothelioma, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [The US Just Approved Its First Big Offshore Wind Farm, and It’s a Breakthrough for the Industry]( [offshore wind farm turbine energy farms] The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions of Edits at Once]( [CRISPR Harvard RLR retron] With CRISPR’s meteoric rise as a gene editing marvel, it’s easy to forget its lowly origins: it was first discovered as a quirk of the bacterial immune system. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [Watch a Jet Suit Pilot Fly Onto a Ship to Trial the Tech for Fighting Pirates]( [jet suit Gravity Industries] Last year, a guy in a jet suit glided up a mountain to trial whether jet suits could be a useful tool for emergency responders in wilderness areas. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [IBM’s New Chip Technology Shows Off the Next Big Step in Moore’s Law]( [ibm 2 nanometer nanosheet transistors] Increasingly, modern life depends on how skillfully we shuttle electrons through the nanoscale mazes etched on computer chips. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 8)]( [tech stories architecture repeating blue triangles] SPACE Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going To Do This Mars Thing Marina Koren | The Atlantic “Take this path all the way to Boca Chica, past the solar-panel farms and storage sheds, past the little street that used to be called Joanna Street until Musk renamed it Rocket Road, and you end up […] [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [A Dutch City Is Using Electric Cars to Feed the Grid]( [bi-directional charging electric cars energy] Electric vehicles are only as green as the grid that powers them, but they can help boost the use of clean energy by storing intermittent renewable energy in their batteries. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [READ MORE]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [YouTube]( Singularity University, 1049 El Monte Ave. Suite C #16, Mountain View, CA 94040, United States, +1-650-200-3434 [Unsubscribe]( [Manage preferences](