By Kendall K. Morgan
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By Maureen Salamon
If there were a clock heralding Helen Naylor’s blood donations, it would ring precisely every eight weeks. For the last decade, the 47-year-old genetics researcher …
By Misha Angrist
You took a nontraditional path to bioethics, starting with a PhD in religious studies. Then, you flirted with an MFA in creative nonfiction and finally …
By Kevin Davies
According to Change Agent, a much-anticipated new book, in the not-too-distant future geneticists will use a revolutionary gene-editing technology called CRISPR to engineer pinpoint corrections …
By Charlotte Huff
Gabino Cerda knew that there was an unsettling pattern of colon cancer in his family when two older siblings were diagnosed, and not long after, …
By Katy Human
Movies and video clips may show astronauts drifting slowly by windows, gazing into the quiet depth of space, but don’t kid yourself: human space flight …
In our summer issue, we featured a story about the 2016 approval of Spinraza (nusinersen), the first really promising drug for the treatment of spinal …
By Subhashini Chandrasekharan, PhD
It has been known by many names — noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS), and noninvasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD). More recently it’s been …
By Robert Cook-Deegan, MD
Today, if your cancer no longer responds to conventional treatment, your oncologist may sequence the tumor cells and direct your treatment according to the profiles …