The Download: A bid to treat blindness, and bridging the internet divide

A Boston startup, Life Biosciences, has received FDA approval to conduct the first human test of an age-reversal method to treat eye disease using a concept called "reprogramming." Companies are working on high-altitude platforms like stratospheric airships to provide internet access to the 2.2 billion people with limited or no internet connectivity. OpenAI has introduced Prism, a tool for scientists that embeds ChatGPT in a text editor for writing scientific papers. Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is working on a project to extract water from thin air using metal-organic frameworks.