By Kendall K. Morgan
When Mindy Brayman’s son Jack was born in 2002, he seemed perfectly healthy. But by the time he turned 6 months old, it was clear …
By Jeanne Erdmann
Erin Youngerberg loves to travel. Over the past 15 years she and a group of her college friends have been to many places: several countries …
By Lena Huang
In your book Evolving Ourselves, you propose two new drivers of evolution: unnatural selection and nonrandom mutation. Explain unnatural selection. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace …
By Jeanette McCarthy, MPH, PhD
Like many people, I enjoy spending time outdoors in the summer. When it comes to wearing sunscreen though, I admit I’m not as diligent as …
By Maureen Salamon
Emily Hu had always considered herself a mediocre athlete. Short legs made her a terrible runner, she says, and poor upper body strength made pull-ups …
By Laura Beil
When James Watson, the famed Nobel laureate, decided to make his genome public, he had one condition: He was willing to share his genetic blueprint, …
By Charlotte Huff
Ever since Maya Brown-Zimmerman learned in college that she had tested positive for a gene mutation linked to Marfan syndrome, a potentially life-threatening disorder, she …
By Greg Fowler
Like everything else in the 21st century, science has become a global affair. Researchers around the world now have access to publicly available data sets …
By Russell Dodds
Certain careers provide opportunities for profound irony, with medicine being an obvious example. Consider the neurosurgeon who develops a rare brain tumor or the nephrologist …
By Kevin Davies
Imagine going for your annual medical checkup a few years from now. Your doctor requests a blood sample for the usual routine screening — cholesterol, …
By Sonya Collins
The pain was too intense to ignore. Sixteen years later, Tony Cirrincione still remembers it. He was on a weekend ski trip, and he staggered …
By Katherine Lagomarsino
In the past five years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved seven new drugs for treating metastatic melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. …
