techkahwa.net | 18 September 2026 Ultragenyx says the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Fayuvi, a one-time gene therapy for the neurologic effects of Sanfilippo syndrome type A in children. STAT reports that it is the first FDA-approved treatment for the disease, a fatal inherited condition that attacks the brain in childhood. What happened … Read more
techkahwa.net | 31 August 2026 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off on Sunday morning from Florida, starting a three-month trip to its observing post about a million miles from Earth. Its main camera has a field of view 100 times larger than the imaging cameras on Hubble, and the mission’s big targets are … Read more
techkahwa.net | 16 July 2026 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a third giant planet in the Beta Pictoris system, a famous young star system. The surprise is how they found it: not by seeing the planet, but by reading the chemical fingerprint of its atmosphere. What happened NASA announced the discovery … Read more
techkahwa.net | 1 July 2026 Rubin Observatory in Chile officially began its Legacy Survey of Space and Time on 30 June, a decade-long project to photograph the entire southern sky again and again with the largest digital camera in the world. Even before the survey started, test runs had already turned up more than 11,000 … Read more
techkahwa.net | 25 April 2026 Researchers at McMaster University and Stanford have used an AI model called SyntheMol-RL to design a new antibiotic candidate, named synthecin, that controlled drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wound infections in mice. The model explores a chemical space of up to 46 billion possible compounds, compared with around a million molecules in … Read more
techkahwa.net | 23 April 2026 The US Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Otarmeni, a gene therapy from Regeneron for hearing loss caused by faulty copies of a single gene called OTOF. According to the FDA, 80% of the 20 patients evaluable for efficacy experienced improved hearing, something the agency says is … Read more
techkahwa.net | 7 April 2026 Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft flew around the Moon on 6 April and, on the way, broke the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever travelled from Earth. That record had stood since 1970, and Artemis II is the first crewed flight of the spacecraft NASA … Read more
techkahwa.net | 2 April 2026 The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Foundayo (orforglipron), a once-daily pill from Eli Lilly for adults with obesity, or overweight with weight-related medical problems. What sets it apart from the injectable drugs in the same family is that it is a small molecule rather than a peptide, a … Read more
techkahwa.net | 29 January 2026 Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome model has been published in Nature, taking in a million letters of DNA at a time and predicting how small changes in that sequence affect the way genes are switched on and off. The paper reports that the model matched or beat the strongest external tools on … Read more
techkahwa.net | 15 January 2026 Europe’s Copernicus climate service says 2025 was the third-warmest year on record, a hair behind 2023 and clearly behind 2024. The more important line comes right after the ranking: the three years from 2023 to 2025 averaged more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level, the first time any three-year period … Read more