Brendan Borrell
From Egyptian mummy dust to cow pus, disease treatments have come a very long way
Back in the 18th century, it was a wonder how anyone ever survived a trip to the doctor. Many didn’t ...
Why we’re seeing more cases of autoimmune disorder PANDAS—if it even exists
In 1998, Susan Swedo, then a pediatrician at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), first proposed PANDAS to explain ...
DNA engineered as ‘hard drives’ for information storage
A new DNA-based recorder allows bioengineers to create cell cultures that detect information in their environment and store it for ...
Capturing a snapshot of how cells interact
Scientists can now take snapshots of where and how thousands of genes are expressed in intact tissue samples, ranging from ...