A golden ticket for AI: Netflix re-creates Gene Wilder’s voice for new ‘Willy Wonka’ show

Call it pure AI-magination. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. On Tuesday, Netflix unveiled the trailer for its new Willy Wonka-themed competition show, which features a re-creation of Gene Wilder’s voice. Wilder, who died in 2016 at age 83, was known for his role as … Read more

Gene Shalit, ‘TODAY’ show movie critic, dies at 100

Eugene Shalit was born on March 25, 1926, in New York. He was raised in New Jersey, where his father purchased a drug store. When the younger Shalit was in elementary school, he created the school’s first newspaper, The Spotlight, and bought a fedora so he looked the part, according to his “TODAY” profile. He … Read more

FDA approves first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Regeneron’s Otarmeni, the first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The drugmaker said it will offer the drug for free to U.S. patients. Otarmeni is approved to treat a very rare form … Read more

They didn’t understand why their kids kept getting sick. After a rare diagnosis, a new gene therapy offered hope.

Ava Langenhop was always sick.  From “the time she was born,” she was “just a sick baby,” the 9-year-old’s mother, Alicia Langenhop, told CBS News. She’d catch any cough or cold. Before she was two months old, she went to the hospital twice for viral infections. Ear infections were constant. Scraped knees turned into skin … Read more