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A team of genetic scientists led by biosciences professor Andrew Pask is attempting to make the concept of “de-extinction” a ...

“So, how many languages do you speak?” “Oh, goodness,” [46 year old carpet cleaner Vaughn] Vaughn says. “Eight, fluently.” “Eight?” ...

The virus had gained a stunning ability to infect people, jumping from one person’s nose to the next. Cases soared ...

For decades, scientists have been studying how alcohol affects our bodies. Some studies have suggested modest amounts, such as a ...

People with “chemo brain” and covid brain fog could not seem more different: Those with “chemo brain” have a life-threatening ...

As school systems around the country were battening down for their first remote start-of-school in the fall of 2020, the ...

Is chasing the latest variant a viable strategy? Instead of testing and potentially deploying a new shot when a new ...

The prospect of declaring victory is seductive at a time of widespread fatigue. Moreover, the challenge of unpredictability is daunting ...

As the omicron blizzard recedes, and as more Americans itch for pandemic restrictions to be lifted, a vocal segment of the country ...

CRISPR-Cas9, whose creators were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry a mere eight years after its discovery, allows researchers ...

When omicron was first identified in late November and began spreading rapidly in the United States, millions of vaccinated people ...

In vitro fertilization (IVF), widely known as a way to help infertile couples have babies, has taken on another remarkable ...

A “twindemic” of covid-19 and influenza is a recipe for public health nightmares. Strict measures to control the spread of ...

Baby talk is cute when grown-ups dote on babies. But when adults converse with each other? Not so much. Yet ...

In the grab bag of reasons for vaccine resistance, the religious exemption claimed by evangelicals is perhaps the most perplexing ...

For generations of parents, Heidi Murkoff’s 1984 pregnancy guide “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” has been a trusty companion, ...

With the omicron variant now the dominant strain in the United States infecting the unvaccinated and fully inoculated alike, health ...

Across America, many of the nearly 50 million people infected with the coronavirus continue to suffer from some persistent symptoms, ...

People wishing to end their lives in Switzerland — one of a handful of countries that give the option — ...

False claims about the new variant have leaped across the Internet in the two weeks since it was first identified ...

Nearly two years into a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 5 million people, every country, including the United ...

Over Thanksgiving, [microbiologist Pei-Yong Shi] began engineering a replica of the new variant to test against the antibodies generated by ...

Every fall, apple growers gather billions of apples, rush them into storage, seal the airtight doors and wait until harvest ...

A sobering portrait of the omicron variant is emerging from the first burst of laboratory studies on the coronavirus’s latest ...

[Dayton General Hospital CEO Shane] McGuire liked to refer to his small staff as a family, and many in fact were family, ...

According to a 2018 study, 33 percent of Americans have used IVF or another form of assisted reproductive technology (ART) to get pregnant, ...

After Donald Trump took office in 2017, there was a surge of interest among the intellectual left in “1984,” George ...

In the early 19th century, British people finally had access to the first vaccine in history, one that promised to ...