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A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
 Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after undergoing the procedure at NYU Langone Health on November 25. She was discharged from the hospital on December 6, and her doctors say she is in good health. Her surgery is the latest in a series of similar procedures known as xenotransplantation, the practice of transplanting organs from one species to another.
Earlier this year, surgeons carried out pig kidney transplants in living people for the first time. In March, 62-year-old Richard Slayman made history when he received a kidney from a genetically engineered pig at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was discharged from the hospital and was initially doing well, but he died nearly two months after the transplant. In a statement released by the hospital, his medical team said there was no indication that his death was the result of his transplant. In November, Slayman’s surgeon said his death was caused by an “unexpected cardiac event,” and there was no sign that his body had rejected the organ.
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WorkAfter 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code. And by "all," I mean everything: core product, failed pivots, miscellaneous scripts, deployment configurations, marketing website, and more. Hopefully the codebase is interesting or potentially helpful to somebody out there! WorkPowerful Earthquake Jolts Vanuatu, Damaging Buildings A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near Vanuatu early Tuesday afternoon, triggering small tsunami waves, causing serious damage to the U.S. Embassy in the capital and knocking out most of the internet connectivity in the Pacific Island nation.
WorkMax Ends Its Partnership With 'Sesame Street' Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit company that makes the venerable children's educational program, is looking for a new distribution partner after Warner Bros. Discovery decided not to renew its agreement to air new episodes of the show on its streaming platform, Max. Work
WorkWorkThe One Way I Know a Team is in Trouble I'm often brought in to assess how leadership teams are doing. I look at a variety of signals. One of the best indicators a team isn't doing so great? False harmony.
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WorkWhy Louis Vuitton is struggling but Herms is not - The Economist (No paywall) There will be fewer designer handbags or high heels under the Christmas tree this year. Spending on personal luxury goods is set to fall by 2% in 2024, according to Bain, a consultancy. Sales of fashion and leather items at LVMH, the worlds biggest luxury conglomerate, have tumbled. Kering, which owns Gucci, has issued a string of profit warnings. Anyone that receives Versace goodies from Santa may feel a little less pleased than usual. The luxury brand is selling 40% of its products at a discount. Work
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WorkPrince Andrew spy scandal rocks British establishment The 50-year-old came clean after reports emerged at the weekend that he had been banned from entering the U.K. in 2023, when he was accused of engaging in covert and deceptive activity on behalf of the Chinese state. He was assessed at the time as posing a threat to U.K. national security. Work
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WorkWorkWorkWorkJeff Bezos' Blue Origin Ramps Up Competition with Elon Musk and SpaceX SpaceX has reshaped how rockets are built and launched since Mr. Musk started it about two decades ago. Its reusable rocket boosters have reduced the cost and increased the frequency that payloads can be shot into orbit. For transporting things like satellites as well as cargo and crew headed to space stations, governments and other customers at times have few other options. WorkWhy OpenAI Needs So Much Money That requires larger and larger amounts of computing power from giant data centers. Inside those data centers are computers packed with thousands of specialized computer chips called graphics processing units, or GPUs, which can cost more than $30,000 apiece. WorkTrump attorney alleges 'grave juror misconduct' in hush money trial, calls to toss verdicts A jury in late May found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a scheme ahead of the 2016 presidential election to keep porn star Stormy Daniels from discussing an alleged one-night stand with Trump years earlier. Trump, who has denied having sex with Daniels, has claimed he is the victim of a political prosecution and a biased judge. WorkWorkWorkWhy the Dow is in such a historic funk and how concerned you should be "This pullback will be the pause that refreshes before a reversal higher to close 2024," said Larry Tentarelli, founder and chief technical strategist of the Blue Chip Daily Trend Report. "We expect buyers to come in this week. ... Index internals are showing oversold readings." WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkElon Musk, SpaceX reportedly under federal review for undisclosed meetings with foreign leaders America isn’t the only country concerned about Musk’s ability to keep a lid on classified information. Nine other countries “including in Europe and the Middle East,” raised security concerns about Musk sitting in meetings with US defense officers over the past three years, according to The New York Times. Employees who were concerned about the lax reactions to these vetting requirements failed to report the behavior out of fear of losing their jobs. WorkWhy Cant You Pack a Bag? - The New Yorker (No paywall) I had my worst-ever packing experience in the late nineties, when I was a teen-ager. My mother and I were returning from a trip to Ireland. Before leaving home, wed overpacked extravagantly, imagining a wide range of non-rainy weather conditions; Id also, for some reason, decided that I needed to bring not just my Discman but a whole booklet of CDs. We were already at capacity when, the day before our return flight, my mom went to the local butcher shop and bought two dozen sausages, a few rashers of bacon, and several cans of stew. Her idea was to wrap everything in plastic bags and hide them inside our giant duffel of laundry. The dogs and the customs agents at Dulles Airport were not deceived. As we knelt on the terminal linoleum, surrounded by sausages and stuffing our clothes back into our bags, I felt a genuine sense of public shame, as though I were in a stockade. WorkHonda and Nissan reportedly open merger talks Speaking of North America, US President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to reverse President Biden’s EV policies. His transition team is said to have recommended ending government support for EVs and charging stations and focusing instead on blocking cars, components and battery materials sourced from China. Climate scientists have warned that transitioning from gas-powered to electric vehicles is necessary to reduce carbon emissions and head off the most catastrophic projections for our planet. WorkWorkUS poised to reach executions milestone Support for the death penalty in 2024 remains at a five-decade low, according to polling firm Gallup. Fifty-three percent of Americans say they are in favor of the death penalty in 2024, a decline from 80 percent 30 years ago. WorkAmericans Traveling to the U.K. in 2025 Must Do This Per a notice on the travel section of the U.S. Department of State's website: "U.S. citizens transiting through or traveling to the United Kingdom for tourism, family visits, business meetings, conferences, or short-term study for six months or less will require an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) prior to travel." WorkIreland fines Meta $263 million for 2018 View As data breach The settlement should provide payment to an estimated 311,127 people. Eligible parties must have had a Facebook account from November 2015 to December 2015, spent more than 30 days in Australia during that period and personally or had a Facebook friend who installed the This is Your Digital Life app. Meta previously agreed to pay $725 million to users in the US. WorkWorkWorkThe chemical weapon accusations against the general killed in Moscow “The analyses by the OPCW designated laboratories, conducted separately and independently from one another, confirm that the grenade and soil samples collected from the trench contain the riot control agent 2-Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile known as CS,” the body reported. Under the chemical weapons convention signed by Russia, it added, “the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare is prohibited”. WorkWorkA comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs | TechCrunch Alyssa Stringer was formerly the Audience Development Manager for TechCrunch. She previously worked for HW Media as Audience Development Manager across HousingWire, RealTrends and FinLedger media brands. Prior to her experience in audience development, Alyssa worked as a content writer and holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism at the University of North Texas. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkPopular LatAm digital payment service AstroPay launches multi-currency wallet | TechCrunch AstroPay itself has teams in multiple markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, India, Peru, Spain, the U.K., and Uruguay. “The team is a reflection of that company we’re building as well. So we are 320 people and we’re spread out around the world,” Sacal said. WorkWorkWorkBitcoin Rally Leaves the World's Original Crypto ETFs Behind While this year’s net flows for Canadian Bitcoin ETFs will be negative, Rincon of TD sees more tailwinds on the way for the crypto ETF industry with incoming changes at the US Securities and Exchange Commission that could lead to more types of ETFs. WorkGun Violence Around Schools Has Risen Since the Pandemic School shootings make up less than 1 percent of all gun deaths suffered by American children. Only a small fraction of the nation’s some 130,000 elementary and secondary schools report episodes involving guns each year. The incidents are far more likely to occur outside on school property than inside schools, the database shows. |
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