A researcher adjusts a microplate containing embryos undergoing gene editing with CRISPR. An expert panel has recommended that all such experiments be submitted to a global registry. MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AP PHOTO
There’s an “urgent need” to create a transparent global registry that would list all experiments related to human genome editing, an expert committee convened to…
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Cynthia, a sex worker who lives near Nairobi, is one of the 13,000 people in Kenya who recently started using pre-exposure prophylaxis. JUOZAS CERNIUS/JHPIEGO
BOSTON—There’s no question that a simple regimen of a single daily pill can slash HIV infections in people at risk. But although millions of people…
Continue reading A daily pill can prevent HIV infections. Why don’t more people use it?
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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…
Continue reading New ways to fight HIV and tuberculosis emerge at AIDS conference
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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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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…
Continue reading Forty years later, Ebola survivors are still making antibodies to the lethal virus
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It had scandal written all over it. Disclosed emails revealed that a covert coalition lobbying for relaxed regulations around a genetic extinction technology, with help…
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Teens play foosball at a youth center run by the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation near Cape Town, South Africa. A new report says HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach boys. Photo: Jason Kane/PBS NewsHour
Friday is World AIDS Day, and pronouncements once again are making proud declarations of the many strides made against HIV in the past year. But…
Continue reading For World AIDS Day, an urgent call for more attention to men and boys
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LEMOORE, CALIFORNIA—“You should’ve been here yesterday.” That’s a repeated gag line in The Endless Summer, the classic 1966 documentary that follows two globetrotting surfers on a…
Continue reading A surfer and a scientist teamed up to create the perfect wave
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