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Deaf baby hears for the first time after 'groundbreaking' gene therapy trial The Washington PostRegeneron's 'protein factory' gene therapy restores hearing Fierce BiotechRegeneron’s Gene Therapy Shows ‘Dramatic’ Hearing Improvement in Deaf Kids BioSpaceBaby born deaf can hear after breakthrough gene therapy Cambridge University HospitalsToddler born deaf can hear after world-first gene therapy The Times

How Poor Tracking of Bird Flu Leaves Dairy Workers at Risk The New York TimesReadout LOUD podcast: What to know about H5N1 bird flu STATFDA preparing for possible bird flu outbreak in humans CBS NewsJust One Human Is Infected by Bird Flu in the US. More Cases Are Likely Yahoo FinanceHow Bird Flu Caught the Dairy Industry Off Guard Scientific American

City leaders have zeroed in on a strategy they hope can break downtown Denver out of what Mayor Mike Johnston has described as the area’s post-COVID “doom loop.” The key to that strategy: the expansion of an obscure special taxing authority that played a key part in downtown’s last big boom. Johnston and other city and business leaders stood in front of the dormant fountains outside Union Station on Thursday morning to announce a plan they say could generate $500 million in public investment in downtown Denver over the coming decade. The approach relies on a strategic funding tool that helped turn Union Station from an all-but-deserted bus terminal into an anchor of downtown Denver’s economic resurgence in the 2010s.  Namely, the Johnston administration and its partners are intent on expanding the boundaries of the Denver Downtown Development Authority to cover all of the city’s core, including the long-floundering Central Business District. Once expanded, that entity — created to pay off $400 million in public debt incurred building infrastructure around the station — would collect incremental property taxes from participating businesses and property owners to back bonds that can be used to fund a host of economic development work and projects, officials explained. What kind of work?

In roughly 100 days, President Joe Biden is set to stand on a stage in Chicago’s United Center and accept his party’s presidential nomination. The organizers of this year’s Democratic National Convention hope America will focus its attention at that moment on Biden’s words and the cheers and enthusiasm of the crowd in the arena. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But many Democrats fear that voters’ attention will be at best divided between the heavily stage-managed activities in the arena and the chaos unfolding just outside it.

Ultraprocessed foods linked to early death risk: Study The HillLimit these ultra-processed foods for longer-term health, 30-year study suggests CBS News4 ultra-processed foods linked with early death: study Business InsiderUltra-processed foods: Some you should avoid to improve overall health Medical News TodayHow Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? The New York Times

Chemical Culprit Identified: Scientists Discover Why “Earth's Twin” Has Almost No Water SciTechDailyVenus water loss is dominated by HCO+ dissociative recombination Nature.comVenus is 900 degrees. That's surprisingly not why it's bone-dry. MashableHow 'Earth's twin' Venus lost its water and became a hellish planet Space.comThis is why Venus is bone dry BBC.com