286 articles from WEDNESDAY 27.5.2020

A-Alpha Bio wins $620,000 grant to work on ‘molecular glue’ for treating disease

A-Alpha Bio, a Seattle venture that began at the University of Washington, has won a $620,472 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system that identifies molecules capable of taking disease-causing proteins out of circulation. The Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant, awarded on April 30, follows up on an earlier Phase I grant focusing on molecular glue. Such...

Twitter fact-checks a Trump tweet for the first time

The news: Twitter added a fact checking label to two tweets from US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account on Tuesday. The tweets from @realDonaldTrump (the president’s popular personal account that also serves as his main social media presence) claimed that mail-in voting would be “substantially fraudulent” and lead to a “Rigged Election.”  It is the first time that Twitter has...