New York Times
‘It’s a whole new life’: After first successful stem cell cure, hope is on the horizon for 10 million people suffering from Type 1 diabetes worldwide
Mr. [Brian] Shelton was the first patient. On June 29, he got an infusion of cells, grown from stem cells ...
Previously infected with COVID? That likely won’t protect you from the Omicron variant
Scientists have known since early in the pandemic that the immunity gained from a coronavirus infection is not total, and ...
Programming biology: How gene synthesis will lead to a host of medical and drug innovations
As a customer, you can visit the Twist website, upload a spreadsheet with the DNA sequence that you want, select ...
How did the Delta variant impact vaccine efficacy?
As tens of millions who are eligible in the United States consider signing up for a Covid-19 booster shot, a growing body of ...
What lasting societal changes might COVID spur?
March 2020 to May 2020 almost certainly marked the most significant short-term change ever in worldwide human behavior. Vast sections ...
‘Misinformation kills’: Websites cataloguing unvaccinated people who died from COVID stir controversy
The details of [auto mechanic Nick] Bledsoe’s death and desperation-fueled change of heart stayed largely confined to his Facebook page ...
Omicron contains dozens of new mutations — but that doesn’t mean the variant is more dangerous
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries ...
As COVID cases slope upwards, Europe takes hard line against the unvaccinated
As temperatures drop and coronavirus infections spike across Europe, some countries are introducing increasingly targeted restrictions against the unvaccinated who ...
Will ‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrite human history, as the book’s authors (modestly) claim?
“The Dawn of Everything” — which weighs in at a whopping 704 pages, including a 63-page bibliography — aims to ...
Genetic and hormonal factors may explain why COVID deaths are more common among men
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in the United States, women account for 45.6 percent ...
How climate change is impacting the future of coffee
According to a 2014 study, under modest declines of greenhouse gas emissions, about 50 percent of the land with conditions ...
US COVID deaths are increasingly concentrated in Republican-voting regions
There simply was not a strong partisan pattern to Covid during the first year that it was circulating in the ...
Recent flip-flop on aspirin recommendations for heart disease is a sign of good science at work. Here’s why
When it comes to preventive health, few tenets are as entrenched as daily aspirin. For more than 30 years, many ...
Regenerative agriculture catching on in Sonoma wine country
To Lauren and Alex Benward, sixth-generation owners of the Beltane Ranch vineyard in Glen Ellen, Calif., the word “sustainability” does ...
Race for biosupremacy? China aggressively expanding efforts in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors and genetic data collection
Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world, part of an effort by the Chinese government and companies ...
‘Viral evolution is a long game.’ Here’s where scientists think COVID might be headed
Even for a virus, evolution is a long game, and our relationship with SARS-CoV-2 is still in its infancy. We ...
First pig-grown kidney transplant successfully trialed in humans
Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs that are suitable for transplantation into humans. Technologies like cloning and ...
Do we need COVID booster shots? Hesitancy emerges among key Biden Administration health officials
Following a series of endorsements over the last month by scientific panels advising federal agencies, tens of millions of Americans ...
Treating cancer without chemotherapy? Oncologists say it’s possible
Chemotherapy for decades was considered “the rule, the dogma,” for treating breast cancer and other cancers, said Dr. Gabriel Hortobagyi, ...
Facebook remains popular destination for people discussing how to acquire and use parasitic worm-treating drug ivermectin
Facebook has become more aggressive at enforcing its coronavirus misinformation policies in the past year. But the platform remains a ...
Vaccines and the founding of the United States: The American Revolution succeeded thanks in part to an immunization mandate
The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate. In 1777, smallpox was a big ...
A larger share of Hispanic American adults have gotten at least one COVID vaccine dose compared to White Americans
The share of Hispanic adults in the U.S. who say they have received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine ...
Why don’t humans have tails like other hominids? It could be an accident of evolutionary history
For half a billion years or so, our ancestors sprouted tails. As fish, they used their tails to swim through ...
Pudendum ‘shame’ controversy: When medical terms promote sexist stereotypes
Allison Draper loved anatomy class. As a first-year medical student at the University of Miami, she found the language clear, ...
How accurate are at-home COVID tests?
Rapid at-home [COVID] tests are a good option for people who have been exposed to the virus, who want to ...
Should race be considered when diagnosing kidney disease?
A scientific task force on [September 23] called for jettisoning a common measure of kidney function that adjusts results by ...
Although vaccinated people can contract breakthrough infections in rare cases, their chances of getting long COVID are low
People who experience breakthrough infections of the coronavirus after being fully vaccinated are about 50 percent less likely to experience ...
Breakthrough COVID cases are uncommon — but are they always mild? Health experts say no
Public health experts continue to believe that breakthrough infections are relatively uncommon, and rarely result in severe illness or hospitalizations ...
