Researchers have used CRISPR, the genome editing tool, to speed the inheritance of specific genes in mammals for the first time. Demonstrated in lab-reared insects…
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Until now, researchers wanting to understand the Neanderthal brain and how it differed from our own had to study a void. The best insights into…
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IN FLORIDA—It’s a Tuesday afternoon in April, and doctors at the adult HIV/AIDS clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami face their usual onslaught of…
Comments closedNigeria has more HIV-infected babies than anywhere in the world. It’s a distinction no country wants
Nigeria has more HIV-infected babies than anywhere in the world. It’s a distinction no country wants
NIGERIA—On a January morning, 12-year-old Yusuf Adamu slumps in his father’s lap, head pressed against his chest. Infected at birth with HIV, he is tiny…
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Status symbol In 2015, Pavel Lobkov, a news anchor on TV Rain, an independent station in Moscow, confronted a predicament unlike any he had faced…
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Photographs by Misha Friedman In 2015, a dermatologist in Russia’s fourth largest city, Yekaterinburg, diagnosed Katia with herpes. “I had no idea what it was,”…
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When seat belt laws went into effect, some studies suggested drivers became more likely to speed or drive recklessly—a phenomenon called “risk compensation.” Is the…
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Late in the afternoon on 30 May, biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys received a phone call that is the stuff of a scientist’s dreams: The Norwegian Academy…
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During an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus like the one underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), research necessarily takes a back…
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