UK start-up Complement Therapeutics has raised an impressive €72 million ($79 million) in first-round financing that will be used to take a gene therapy for sight-robbing disease geographic atrophy ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

A Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Valentine’s Day, and astronauts popped open the hatches at 5:14 pm ET (22:14 UTC) on Saturday evening. The arrival of four new ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

Is it a sign of a good healthcare system when millions of people turn to a hallucinating robot for help? Reading time 2 minutes OpenAI just released a report about healthcare drawn from anonymized ...

The complement system is an innate immune response that leads to increased inflammation. The drug pegcetacoplan—a complement inhibitor—was approved for medical use in the United States in 2021 to ...

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A happy couple who first met seven years ago when they both awoke from comas got engaged inside the same hospital where they were treated as teenagers. Zach Zarembinski popped the question to Isabelle ...

Among people with sickle cell disease—an inherited blood disorder—acute chest syndrome (ACS) is the leading cause of death. The condition is the result of red blood cells becoming stiff, sticky, and ...

ARO-C3 treatment led to deep and sustained reductions in alternative pathway complement activity and proteinuria. ARO-C3, an investigational RNA interference-based therapy targeting hepatic expression ...

In myasthenia gravis, complement plays a big role in what happens to the muscle end of the neuromuscular junction, explains Miriam Freimer, MD, an author on 5 abstracts presented at the recent 15th ...

Suggested remit: To appraise the clinical and cost effectiveness of pegcetacoplan within its marketing authorisation for treating primary complement 3 (C3) glomerulopathy and primary immune-complex ...