Tuberculosis piggybacks on HIV and many people, like this woman in South Africa, wind up hospitalized with life-threatening cases of the curable lung disease. JON COHEN/SCIENCE
BOSTON—Some people naturally handle HIV infection better than others, but only two clear genetic explanations have ever been found. Now, a new study reported here…
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The genome editor CRISPR cuts DNA with help from a guide RNA (green and red) and a Cas9 enzyme (outline) that latches onto a three-base sequence (yellow). KC ROEYER/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
You wouldn’t know it from the excitement generated by the revolutionary genome editing method known as CRISPR, but as practiced now, it is far from…
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Airplane flight recorders and body cameras help investigators make sense of complicated events. Biologists studying cells have tried to build their own data recorders, for…
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Harvard University geneticist George Church has co-founded a new company to help individuals share and market their genomes. GRETCHEN ERTL/The New York Times
In Hollywood terms, a marriage of blockchain, the technology created to track the bitcoin digital currency, and whole genome sequencing is a supercouple. And when…
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Public health experts say getting a flu shot can still help protect you from this year’s unusually big outbreak. Jovanmandic/iStockPhoto.com
It’s week 10 of a flu season that may only be half over, and a wave of influenza across the entire United States has led…
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1931. Boris Karloff as the creature in the box office hit Frankenstein, directed by James Whale. UNIVERSAL PICTURES/SCREENPROD/PHOTONONSTOP/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
On 1 August 1790, a precocious student named Victor Frankenstein submitted a radical proposal to an ethical panel at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria.…
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Researchers envision that safe ultraviolet lights could one day help disinfect airports. Anucha Maneechote/Shutterstock.com/Adapted by David Brenne
Hospitals and laboratories often use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill microbes, but the practice has one major drawback: It can harm humans. So UV lights…
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Protesters from several health advocacy groups gathered this morning in front of the Washington, D.C., offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alex Morash/The National LGBTQ Task Force
Presidential budget requests are political documents, and the wrong word can send a confusing message—and trigger controversy. President Donald Trump’s administration appears to have kicked…
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Lab technician and Ebola survivor Sukato Mandzomba (front) worked with Peter Piot (back) in 1976 and again in 2016.
Forty years after the first documented Ebola outbreak, some of the survivors still have antibodies against the virus, a new study reveals. The find bolsters…
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