New messenger RNA vaccines to fight the coronavirus are based on a technology that could transform medicine. Next up: sickle cell and HIV.
The radical future unleashed by the genetics and biotechnology revolutions has already begun. It's up to us to start shaping it.
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
It is a story that began three decades ago, with a little-known scientist who refused to quit.
It’s not just what makes males into males. The sex chromosome also influences health in hidden ways, some experts believe, and may even explain why men have shorter life spans.
Geneticists have turned up intriguing links between DNA and the disease. Patients with Type A blood, for example, seem to be at greater risk.
We now can identify which genes were important at each stage of domestication history, and discover what they do.
Two algal species share important genes with all modern land
Success against sickle-cell would be “the first genetic cure of a common genetic disease” and could free tens of thousands of Americans from agonizing pain.
As of 2016, about 80% of people in genetic studies were of European descent. We know humans originated in Africa but we don’t know what we did before we emigrated — we don't know our own history.
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