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Jalen Brunson Thrills Fans as Knicks Slow Down Nikola Jokić in Win vs. Nuggets | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The New York Knicks downed the Denver Nuggets 122-112 on Wednesday behind another tremendous night from Jalen Brunson. Brunson had his sixth game with 30 or more this month, dropping 30 on 10-of-16 from the field. His vision was on display as well as he dished out 15 assists. […]

Science

Detroit’s reparations task force has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may help

by Kamri Hudgins, Erykah Noelle Benson, Mara Ostfeld and Vincent Hutchings, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The work of crafting reparations at the municipal level is fierce. Detroiters know. In November 2021, residents voted to create a reparations committee that would make recommendations for housing and economic development programs to address historical discrimination against […]

Science

The World’s First Crispr Drug Gets a Slow Start

Deshawn “DJ” Chow waited a year to receive a treatment that could change his life. The 19-year-old was born with sickle cell disease, which makes his red blood cells crescent-shaped and sticky. The misshapen cells build up and block blood vessels, cutting off oxygen to parts of the body and causing episodes of excruciating pain. […]

Technology

Antibodies Could Soon Help Slow the Aging Process

Normally, antibodies are protective proteins produced by our immune systems to fight bacteria or viruses. Their strength comes from their specificity—when you get ill, B cells in your immune system undergo an exquisitely precise process of accelerated evolution, rapidly optimizing antibodies that bind precisely to whatever is making you unwell, without sticking to any of […]

Business & Finance

Reckoning with an era of slow growth

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Has rapid economic growth in the world’s high-income countries come to an end? If so, did the bursting of the bubble economy in 2007 mark the turning point? Alternatively, are we at the start of […]