The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA.
A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences.
A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.
Poorly supported assumptions about typical levels of lung function among Black men in the US are leading medics to miss cases of emphysema
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.
In the past couple of weeks, UK, Germany, France and others are experiencing a new wave. The US should get ready
Phase 1 study is among first to examine mRNA technology for HIV.
The new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed.
The finding upends conventional wisdom regarding coughing, long thought to be the main route of transmission.
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
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