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Just 10 years after its invention, CRISPR gene editing is taught in high schools
A decade after CRISPR started to become a major tool in genetic research, a new generation of scientists is growing up with the ...
CRISPR runs through it: From targeting diseases to transforming farming, gene editing has ushered in a science revolution
CRISPR continues to create new avenues for exploration and reinvigorate old studies ...
10 years old: CRISPR is revolutionizing medicine and agriculture, raising profound ethical questions
Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues published the results of a test-tube experiment on bacterial genes ...
Viewpoint: America has yet to come to terms with — let alone make amends for — its racist sterilization practices during the early 20th century eugenics movement
In the summer of 1973, Minnie Lee and Mary Alice were taken from their home in Montgomery, cut open and ...
Where did monkeypox come from? Genetic analysis suggests it’s been ‘silently’ circulating since 2018
When the first monkeypox cases were identified in early May, European health officials were stumped. The virus was not known ...
3-D printed ears: First body part made with a person’s own cells
A 20-year-old woman who was born with a small and misshapen right ear has received a 3-D printed ear implant ...
Obesity, stress and chemicals: Do these factors explain why girls are reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages?
Although it is difficult to tease apart cause and effect, earlier puberty may have harmful impacts, especially for girls. Girls ...
Embryo screening PGT-A tests may falsely identify healthy embryos as abnormal
When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took ...
Epidemic of loneliness: Post-COVID update on how emotional isolation damages our health
For two years you didn’t see friends like you used to. You missed your colleagues from work, even the barista ...
Food shortages and growing public anger boils over as Beijing-ordered lockdowns shut down major Chinese cities
Anger and anxiety over the Shanghai lockdown, now in its fourth week, has posed a rare challenge for China’s powerful ...
How COVID steals sense of smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
Despite globally low number of COVID cases, some experts fear Africa’s low vaccination rates
Many countries in the developed world are rapidly lifting restrictions like mask mandates and vaccine passports. There seems to be ...
Infographic: Here is how experts think the COVID virus will evolve
As scientists who study how viruses evolve, we are often asked about the future of the coronavirus. Will it go ...
How physician and biochemist Robert Malone went from falsely claiming to have invented the mRNA vaccine to becoming an infamous spreader of COVID disinformation
Dr. [Robert] Malone spent decades working in academic centers and with start-ups seeking to bring new medical treatments to market ...
99% effective birth control pill developed for male mice — but human version is a ways off
A buzzy new animal study offers another contender in the search for a male form of birth control. Researchers at the University ...
Is artificial intelligence the future of healthy eating?
DayTwo is just one of a host of apps claiming to offer A.I. eating solutions. Instead of a traditional diet, ...
Investigation: DNA ancestry search uncovers fertility fraud. What happens next?
Traci Portugal, who is in her 40s, lives in Washington State and runs the website DonorDeceived.org, which catalogs and tracks ...
Coping with loss: Should grieving for a loved one longer than a year be considered a mental illness?
After more than a decade of argument, psychiatry’s most powerful body in the United States added a new disorder this ...
Evusheld mystery: 7 million Americans are immunocompromised — but a drug that could protect the vulnerable against severe COVID is going unused
As much of the nation unmasks amid plummeting caseloads and fresh hope that the pandemic is fading, the Biden administration ...
Could the war in Ukraine spark a global food crisis?
A crucial portion of the world’s wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war, while ...
‘The Insect Crisis’ book review: From climate change to habitat loss to chemicals, what’s behind the die off of insect populations?
When was the last time you had to clean bug splatter from your windshield? This ritual was once an inevitable ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bobby’s lies and fear-mongering were sickening and repulsive’ — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s emergence as feckless anti-vaccine conspiracist rattles family and friends
Once a top environmental lawyer who led the charge to clean up the Hudson River in New York, the third ...
Here’s how COVID attacks your ability to smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
NFL ordered to dump ‘race-based’ formula for determining concussion damage, opening door for millions in settlements for retired Black players
The federal judge overseeing the N.F.L. concussion settlement formally removed the use of a race-based method to evaluate dementia tests ...
Will you need a second COVID booster shot? Probably not.
As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question ...
From sex to drugs to alcohol to gambling, addiction ruins lives. This new book ‘The Urge’ offers insights and hope
Our culture, ever on the lookout for easy, unambiguous answers to the predicament of being flawed and often unhappy humans, ...
‘A Genetic History of the Americas’: In new book, geneticist claims first Americans did not arrive in North America via Siberian land bridge, as is widely believed
It’s Anthropology 101. At the end of the last ice age, around 13,000 years ago, retreating glaciers created an inland ...
Are your organic clothes eco-friendly and chemical free? Fraud rampant in India exports, world’s largest cotton market
“This product contains independently certified organic cotton grown without chemical pesticides, chemical fertilizers and genetically modified seeds,” the product description ...
