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118 Hidden Planets, FDA Wearables Risk & CRISPR's $70M Signal
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AI pipeline RAVEN uncovers 118 planets buried in NASA's TESS data — then science news daily turns to FDA deregulation of health wearables, cellular aging breakthroughs, and a surging CRISPR funding wave. Six stories, zero filler.
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A hundred and eighteen planets were hiding in NASA's data the whole time. Researchers at the University of Warwick built an AI pipeline called RAVEN, pointed it at observations from NASA's TESS satellite, and it found worlds that years of human analysis had missed.
That theme of acceleration runs into a harder question when you look at what happened to health wearables in January. New FDA guidance under the Trump administration reclassified blood pressure monitoring as a wellness product rather than a medical device.
Shift to cellular biology. Stanford researchers working with killifish models have identified something precise: the machinery inside cells that builds proteins deteriorates with age.
A new global study puts chronic kidney disease in sharper focus. Eight hundred million people worldwide are living with it.
Two smaller findings worth tracking. Japanese researchers have linked low vitamin B12 and folate levels to persistent fatigue and motivation loss, even in people who appear otherwise healthy.
Finally, a funding signal worth noting. YolTech, a CRISPR gene-editing startup in China, has raised seventy million dollars ahead of a planned Hong Kong IPO.
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