RandomFactor writes:In an extremely rare reversal, the biotech company Biogen said that it will submit the experimental amyloid beta targeting drug aducanumab—which previously had its drug trial stopped as futile—to the Food and Drug Administration for approval.
upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956Amazon is shipping expired food, from baby formula to old beef jerky, scaring consumers and putting big brands at risk
Runaway1956 writes:rysiek on Mastodon has announced an anticensorship project - https://mastodon.social/@rysiek hosted at https://git.occrp.org/libre/samizdat:
martyb writes:[Update (2019/10/19 21:02:00 UTC): Both sodium and fluorine have rebooted. Next up will be beryllium rebooting 1d12h from now. That leaves rebooting of helium 18h later and 3h after that will have boron being rebooted. Again, any impact visible to the community should be minimal. See TMB's note, below. --martyb]We have just learned that Linode, the provider of SoylentNews' server infrastructure, is planning a number of reboots.[TMB Note]: This shouldn't mean any downtime for anything user-facing except IRC. There will be a few minutes where the comment counts won't update on the front page but those aren't realtime anyway and a few minutes where subscription updates will be delayed until the server that processes them comes back up.