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A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr

In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing...

Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups

The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something wrong...

To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

Imagine the brain as the night sky—an expansive sea of tissue dotted with cells of all shapes and sizes....

Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. No One Knows Why

The explosive US monkeypox epidemic, now four months old, appears to be slowing down—although new cases, and serious complications,...

This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness

Denise Jones quit her job because she was losing her hair. Diagnosed with the autoimmune disease alopecia areata...

Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?

In April 2021, a widely anticipated paper in the field of psychedelics dropped. The study, a small trial...

For Some Patients, Long Covid Symptoms Mask Something Else

It was overuse of acetaminophen that finally led to Nic Petermann’s cancer diagnosis. For months, the then 26-year-old...

Egg and Sperm Donors Could Be Required to Share Medical Records

Laura High’s hormones have been out of whack since she was as young as 13 years old. Her...

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