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‘Big Weed’: How today’s cannabis landscape mirrors tobacco companies in the 1950s
OK, marijuana is now legal. So where’s the public health approach? Strictly speaking, marijuana use isn’t fully legal across the ...
Can hallucinogenic mushrooms help dying patients face death? Synthetic psilocybin is put to the test
A hospital affiliated with Harvard has reopened the door on research with psychedelic drugs to see if mushrooms can help ...
There are already 175,000 gene-based health tests available of uneven value. How do patients, doctors and insurance companies separate the wheat from the chaff?
New technology has a history of overwhelming systems that try to manage it, and it’s proving to be the case ...
Heart from a genetically engineered pig transplanted into a human, for the second time
In a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center announced [September 22] that, for ...
How Dolly, the first cloned sheep, sparked bioethical debate over ‘creating life’
Perhaps more than any other biotech advance, Dolly, the first cloned animal, symbolized growing human power over nature. But the ...
What makes an embryo an embryo? Synthetic fertilized eggs scramble conventional science
The mainstreaming of IVF, or in vitro fertilization, has familiarized new generations of people with what the earliest stages of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Sugar is a far more dangerous enemy’ — Dentist explains why banning aspartame in foods and drinks is a reckless idea
I am a dentist and a mother of three. I know that even the most responsible parents will not be ...
Viewpoint: 60% of people with sickle cell disease live in sub-Saharan Africa. Gene-based cures must be accessible to everyone
The treatment of sickle cell disease is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough, with makers of two gene-based treatments for the ...
‘Like the passenger manifest of Noah’s Ark’: Zoonomia Project reveals evolutionary links among humans and 240 other mammals
Despite decades of advancements in genomics, we still don’t know what most of our DNA does. But an ambitious international ...
Brain diversity: Are Black Americans at higher risk of developing dementia? Underrepresentation in studies leads to uncertainty
In the whitewashed world of Alzheimer’s research, one scientist is on a quest to understand the diversity of brains ...
Making human eggs from scratch: Scientists are trying to replicate this complex chemical recipe
Gameto, a biotech startup, has developed a product called Fertilo that it hopes can improve the odds of success in ...
Challenging taboos: How genetics of ‘race’ impact breast cancer treatments
Cinicians know the odds tend to be stacked against Black breast cancer patients. They have more dangerous and aggressive subtypes ...
CRISPR gene editing has shown it can cure sickle cell anemia — raising questions about who can access this life-changing treatment
At age 37, free of symptoms, able to be a mom and work a full-time job, sickle cell patient and ...
Texas judge may block access to abortion pills. Here’s how that ruling could disrupt the US approval system for all drugs
‘A slippery slope’: A looming nationwide abortion pill ban could undermine the entire drug approval system ...
Why do some drugs trigger a deadly brain disease? The answer is in our genetic code
Medicines that reshape or tamp down immune responses may be life-changing for patients with cancer and autoimmune disorders, but in ...
He Jiankui — CRISPR babies mastermind — is out of prison. What’s next for his career?
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who created the first gene-edited children, had been quiet since completing a three-year prison sentence in April, ...
3+ million lives saved: COVID vaccines prevented mass death in the US
A study released December 13 by the Commonwealth Fund shows that in those two years, the Covid vaccines have averted over ...
Viewpoint: ‘What’s the biological equivalent of an atomic bomb’? Here’s how the gene editing revolution could go astray
We now sequence the genes of people, animals, plants and tumors routinely. We’re starting to edit DNA, not only in ...
What’s next for the Human Genome Project — Mapping the brain to understand the impact of disease
The latest announcement is part of a continuing effort known as Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN), which was ...
Can you damage your body by regularly donating blood?
One question has plagued the field of blood donation for as long as there have been transfusions: Are we harming ...
There’s still a lot of confusion about how monkeypox spreads. Here is what we know so far
Monkeypox has spent most of its evolutionary history living inside Central and Western Africa’s small mammals — squirrels, rats, mice, ...
‘It has to happen’: Tech titans pour billions into anti-aging research — yet overlook promising metformin trial
Beating back the diseases of aging has become something of a pet project for many of Silicon Valley’s tech titans ...
‘Racist overtones’: Renaming ’monkeypox’ runs into headwinds
Since the earliest days of the current global monkeypox outbreak, scientists and public health authorities have been calling for the ...
With global smallpox vaccine supplies in short supply, monkeypox may no longer be containable
It has been a mere nine weeks since the United Kingdom announced it had detected four cases of monkeypox, a ...
Viewpoint: Shining future promised by gene therapy blocked by researchers who refuse to share data
Transparency in gene therapy research — which can be accomplished without compromising commercial prospects — is vital to success. One ...
Why the US is ill prepared if monkeypox escalates into a pandemic
As if dealing with continued waves of Covid-19 isn’t enough, the U.S. is facing a new outbreak — monkeypox — ...
Enslaved people brought the first vaccine to America — and were used as ‘vaccine mules’ in early immunization experiments
The history of people becoming sick and dying from epidemics is timeless. But the practice of vaccinating people to prevent ...
When CRISPR gene editing debuted ten years ago, almost nobody noticed
CRISPR/Cas9 is a transformative breakthrough for which two of its authors, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, were awarded the Nobel Prize ...