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James GallagherHealth and science correspondentBBCA therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report.The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting “living drug”.The first girl to be treated, whose story we reported in 2022, is still free of the disease and now plans to become a cancer scientist.Now eight more children and two adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia have been treated, with almost two thirds (64%) of patients in remission.T-cells are supposed to be the…

Welcome to Variety Awards HQ! Your weekly command center for the Oscars race. It’s Dec. 8, 2025, and we’re deep in the thick of it. The past seven days have been a whirlwind of major awards season benchmarks, and if anyone thought this year’s race would follow a predictable script, they were proven wrong. The Golden Globe nominations dropped Monday, marking a notably international and genre-diverse field, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” leading all films with nine nominations. Other top contenders included “Sentimental Value,” “Sinners,” “Marty Supreme” and “The Secret Agent,” while films like “Jay Kelly” and…

With the Winter Olympics less than two months away, mogul skiers Jakara Anthony and Matt Graham have given Australian fans plenty to get excited about.The duo claimed gold at the World Cup in Ruka, Finland on Monday as preparations for the Milan-Cortina Games, starting 6 February, reach the home stretch.With back-to-back events on the challenging course, Graham, who finished fourth 24 hours earlier led at every stage.The 2018 Olympic silver medallist won the super final ahead of the opening World Cup winner, Japan’s Ikuma Horishima, with Canada’s Julien Viel third.“To get a double gold with Jakara – it’s massive. We’re…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe week continues to be sunny and relatively nice out, though I keep hoping for a good snow storm before Christmas. There’s nothing quite so lovely as a white Christmas and it’s pretty rare in my hometown, though not out of the question. Two feet of snow. That’s what I want. A world blanketed in white. A winter wonderland. The muffled stillness the morning takes on when new snow has fallen. For now, I’ll settle for solving this Wordle.Looking for Monday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.Today’s Bonus WordleNow that we…

Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year extension with Disney’s ABC Network and will continue to host Jimmy Kimmel Live! through at least 2027, the Guardian has confirmed.Bloomberg first reported the news on Monday, noting that Kimmel and Disney struck a new one year extension. His current contract had been set to expire in May 2026.Kimmel and Disney agreed on the extension several months ago but delayed announcing their plans out of respect for fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to Bloomberg.This summer, CBS announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert had been cancelled and would end in May 2026.The…

In the one-step forward, one-step back world Manchester United are living in just now, they took a stride in the right direction against Wolves at Molineux.Whether it is significant or not remains to be seen.After all, the big win at Crystal Palace nine days ago was followed by a dire draw against third-bottom West Ham. Before that, a three-match winning run was followed by three games without a win, culminating in a home defeat by an Everton side reduced to 10 men after less than 15 minutes.Monday night’s 4-1 drubbing of a hapless Wolves was United’s biggest win of the…

US President Donald Trump has announced that he will allow AI chip maker Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chips to “approved customers” in China.”We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI,” Trump said on social media on Monday.The decision will apply to other US chipmakers like AMD and comes after an extensive lobbying effort by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, who visited Washington last week to drum up support.Nvidia – both the world’s leading chipmaker and most valuable company – has found itself at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and…

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that’s only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we’re finding new species like never before.

The musician was reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow while creating his latest album, Baby, an experience that proved to be more psychological than he expected Dijon pushed himself to the brink while creating his acclaimed second studio album, Baby. But it wasn’t the music that sent him there — it was a postmodern novel about the creation of ballistic missiles in Europe at the close of World War II. In a recent interview with Pitchfork, the musician revealed that a friend attempted to stage an intervention to stop him from reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow due to the adverse psychological…