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‘We are desperate for human contact’: the people breaking lockdown to have sex | Sex
Last summer, shortly after the first lockdown was relaxed enough to allow strangers to meet outdoors, Rosie, 35, an editor based in London, joined a man for a first date on Hampstead Heath. “He said: ‘I brought some wine with me, but the glasses are in my flat, round the corner.’ I’d only met him …
Breaking through the unknowns of the human reference genome
The release of drafts of the human genome in 2001 was a landmark achievement1,2. Scientists could, for the first time, study long stretches of each human chromosome, base by base. As such, researchers could begin to understand how individual genes were ordered, and how the surrounding non-protein-coding DNA was structured and organized. Despite this amazing …
‘Nightmare’ Australia Housing Lockdown Called Breach of Human Rights
MELBOURNE, Australia — The sudden lockdown this summer of nine public housing towers in Melbourne that left 3,000 people without adequate food and medication and access to fresh air during the city’s second coronavirus wave breached human rights laws, an investigation found. The report, released on Thursday by the ombudsman in the state of Victoria, …
New Intuitive Voice Technology Enables Customers To Complete Requests Without Waiting For Human Assistance
NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — With forecasts suggesting that by 2024, the number of digital voice assistants will reach 8.4 billion units – a number higher than the world’s population* – new technology has been launched this week that makes it easier and more cost effective for organisations to create voice-guided assistance for …
Biden Picks Xavier Becerra to Lead Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Xavier Becerra, the Democratic attorney general of California, as his nominee for secretary of health and human services, tapping a former congressman who would be the first Latino to run the department as it battles the surging coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Becerra became Mr. Biden’s clear choice …
Part human, part machine: is Apple turning us all into cyborgs? | Technology
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Apple engineers embarked on a rare collaboration with Google. The goal was to build a system that could track individual interactions across an entire population, in an effort to get a head start on isolating potentially infectious carriers of a disease that, as the world was discovering, could …
Mexico’s new National Guard is breaking its vow to respect human rights
Jessica Silva and her husband Jaime Torres were driving through Delicias, a town in the northern state of Chihuahua, late on 8 September when members of Mexico’s National Guard attacked them. That afternoon they had joined thousands of agricultural workers in a tense protest at La Boquilla, a nearby dam, to defend their right to …
Which Genes Are Critical to Human Heart Development?
The advent of genome science has given researchers an unprecedented ability to understand the root causes of a host of conditions. Justin Cotney, assistant professor of genetics and genome sciences in the UConn School of Medicine, has used this technology to identify a suite of genes and regulatory elements critical to normal heart development. …
Genomic Prediction Technology Uncovers New CRISPR Safety Concerns in Human Embryos
The research has far-reaching implications for the safety of embryo genetic editing and the future of genetic disease therapy. It also highlights the importance of state-of-the-art comprehensive preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) in single cells that can identify these complex editing changes. “Genomic Prediction’s PGT provides the most comprehensive analysis of the embryonic genome available today,” …
Human Rights: A New Role For The Intelligence Community « Breaking Defense
Seal of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Human rights literally disappeared from former President Trump’s National Security Council (NSC) when he dropped the term from the position once known as the special assistant to the President for multilateral affairs and human rights. President Biden has appointed a new coordinator for democracy and …