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Sam Bankman-Fried has been charged with eight counts of fraud and conspiracy for using FTX customer funds as a personal piggy bank with his hedge fund Alameda Research.Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images)Failed co-founder and CEO of the FTX crypto exchange Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly has a few layers of security while he’s at home waiting for trial, including security guards and a 75-pound German shepherd. Though since his address is easily Googleable, angry former fans still seem intent on paying the once-crypto…

The world’s only approved peanut allergy drug has so far proved a flop. Nestlé SA said Tuesday it would explore strategic options for the treatment, effectively putting the drug up for sale, following lower-than-expected demand from doctors and patients. The move comes just two years after the packaged-food giant agreed to buy the developer of the drug, called Palforzia, in a $2.6 billion deal. “We did have high hopes for this business,” Nestlé Chief Executive…

Superheroes do superhero things: They jump, punch stuff, run fast, and sometimes shoot beams out of their eyes. These activities require energy, just like normal human activities. When you get up in the morning, that takes energy. Walking around takes energy. Running a mile requires even more energy—but not nearly as much as it would take to fly a human-powered helicopter for one minute. (Yes, that’s real.) All of that energy comes from food. If superheroes also get their energy from food, just how much would they need to…

After 18 months of treatment, 74% of patients who received the combination medication attained remission, compared to 4% of those who received a placebo.Immune changes can cause peanut allergy remissionThe potential of new, more focused allergy treatments is now possible thanks to the identification of the key immunological changes that allow the remission of peanut allergy in children.For the first time, researchers discovered that particular gene networks are rewired to drive the transition from peanut allergy to…