Category: Funding

The House managed to pass a bill avoiding a government shutdown just days before funding runs out

Newsbreak 3 weeks ago in Around The World, Biden, Breaking News, brendan-boyle, Economy, Funding, government shutdown, Mike Johnson, Policy, Politics 0

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. REUTERS/Nathan Howard The House passed a bill to avoid a government shutdown, with Democrats signing on. The legislation would fund federal agencies with two staggered deadlines. Some conservatives opposed the bill because it left out steep spending cuts. Just days before the government was set to run out of funding, the House managed to pass a continuing resolution to…

MIT neuroscientists are testing a headset that uses a ‘disco’ of light and sound to treat Alzheimer’s disease

Newsbreak 9 months ago in Alzheimer's Disease, Around The World, Dispensed, Funding, Health, Healthcare, science, Startup 0

The MIT neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai is a cofounder of Cognito Therapeutics. Cognito Therapeutics Alzheimer’s disease is a complicated and debilitating disease that has no cure. One startup is testing whether a “disco” of light and sound can slow the disease in patients. Cognito Therapeutics raised $73 million to test this theory in hundreds of people. For decades, biotech companies have struggled to develop treatments for…