Late month, Google announced plans to pump $1 billion into the African continent over a period of 5 years, to support enterprise and link the continent with a subsea internet cable. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is optimistic about Africa. “Increasingly, we are seeing innovation begin in Africa and then spread throughout the world. For example,...
Facebook has issued an explanation for the outage that lasted more than 5 hours and disconnecting the world. It was not a hack, but some technical mumbo-jumbo their engineers described as “faulty configuration change.” “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused...
Scammers are everywhere, and if you think you’re smart and you cannot be scammed, think again– nobody is immune, and anybody, no matter how smart, can fall victim. That’s why it’s crucial to stay vigilant. An October 2019 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report found that millennials are 25 percent more likely than 40+-year-old people to report losing...
Careers in Biotechnology could be the next big thing thanks to the worldwide outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. Response to the pandemic calls for increased spending in healthcare and Biotechnology to bolster U.S. capability in detecting, handling, and preventing future public health crisis of this magnitude. We have done this before in a smaller but...
In the previous In Layman’s terms – what is gene therapy article, I explained that gene therapy could treat patients with damaged or missing genes. Gene therapy is the process of transferring a functioning gene into a patient’s cells, and that a vector facilitates this transfer of genes. A vector, such as an adeno-associated virus (AAV), is...
Gene therapy is one of the newest approaches to the treatment of diseases. It’s well suited for illnesses that can be pinpointed down to the specific gene sequence causing them. Suppose you have a gene for reading my articles on LinkedIn. But in your case, the gene is damaged or missing from your DNA. Then...
