This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On a lightly snowing Sunday evening, a potential participant in Denis Rebrikov’s controversial plans to create gene-edited babies meets…
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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Earlier this month, Denis Rebrikov went to an old mansion in Moscow that now houses the Russian…
Comments closedCRISPR, an extraordinarily powerful genome-editing tool invented in 2012, can still be clumsy. It sometimes changes genes it shouldn’t, and it edits by hacking through…
Comments closedIn the past decade, increasingly powerful genetic techniques have found hordes of microbial DNA in everything from the human gut to a scoop of seawater.…
Comments closedA man in China who, after eating high-carbohydrate or sugary meals, became so intoxicated that he blacked out, has led researchers to discover strains of…
Comments closedPolice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have arrested the former health minister, Oly Ilunga Kalenga, for allegedly mismanaging $4.3 million in Ebola…
Comments closedPublic health experts are debating how to help the 1 million children in the Philippines who received a new vaccine against dengue that could, in…
Comments closedAs Zika virus raced through the Americas and the Caribbean in 2015 and 2016, it infected an estimated 800,000 people and left nearly 4000 newborns…
Comments closed*Update, 15 August, noon: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday approved a new drug, pretomanid, to treat highly drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). The drug must…
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