Google DeepMind created an AI that matched or exceeded the performance of experts in identifying a common form of blindness and grading its severity. Researchers trained the AI algorithm using a set of 128,000 retinal images, and tested its performance on 12,000 images.

With Chinese scientists announcing that they have tested CRISPR on a human for the first time, the U.S. must decide soon whether it will be a leader or a follower in advancing the tech. While gene editing technology could be used in nefarious ways, it could also cure diseases and improve millions of lives, but we won't know how effective it is until we begin human trials.

A new gene therapy technique offers treatment for the inheritance of mutations of the mitochondria using replacement therapy. This could have a huge impact, as the prevalence of mitochondrial disorders worldwide is at an estimate of 11.5 to every 100 thousand individuals.

Six countries are all on track to significantly reduce, if not eliminate, coal generated power from their respective grids. Renewable energy is not only safer for our environment, it is also become more profitable than coal.