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Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms
Environment

Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms

By Kate Baggaley

It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab
Health

It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab

By Sara Chodosh

You may not need to finish your antibiotics (but you probably still should)
Health

You may not need to finish your antibiotics (but you probably still should)

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain
Health

Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain

By Kate Baggaley

Researchers used CRISPR to encode a movie into DNA
Health

Researchers used CRISPR to encode a movie into DNA

By Claire Maldarelli

Personalized vaccines could help the immune system fight cancer
Health

Personalized vaccines could help the immune system fight cancer

By Aparna Nathan

Scientists have a fascinating new way to determine the age of skeletal remains
Health

Scientists have a fascinating new way to determine the age of skeletal remains

By Sara Kiley Watson

‘FDA approved’ medical devices don’t actually have to do what they promise
Health

‘FDA approved’ medical devices don’t actually have to do what they promise

By Sara Chodosh

Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses
Health

Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses

By Kate Baggaley

Scientists are using gene editing to try to slow cancer growth
Health

Scientists are using gene editing to try to slow cancer growth

By Claire Maldarelli

How the first broad-spectrum antibiotic emerged from the Missouri dirt
Health

How the first broad-spectrum antibiotic emerged from the Missouri dirt

By William Rosen

This ‘artificial womb’ is like science fiction—but uteruses aren’t out of a job yet
Health

This ‘artificial womb’ is like science fiction—but uteruses aren’t out of a job yet

By Rachel Feltman

Why are the measles coming back?
Health

Why are the measles coming back?

By Sara Chodosh

Spinach leaves
Technology

How to turn a spinach leaf into a human heart

By Sara Chodosh

Scientists have figured out how to stop our bodies from fighting electronic implants
Technology

Scientists have figured out how to stop our bodies from fighting electronic implants

By Rob Verger

This vaccine just might stop Ebola from annihilating the great apes
Health

This vaccine just might stop Ebola from annihilating the great apes

By Mark D. Kaufman

A new test can detect your blood type with color-changing paper
Health

A new test can detect your blood type with color-changing paper

By Claire Maldarelli

Washable heartbeat sensors can now be embroidered onto clothing
Health

Washable heartbeat sensors can now be embroidered onto clothing

By Mary Beth Griggs

A new opioid could provide pain relief—without causing addiction
Health

A new opioid could provide pain relief—without causing addiction

By Claire Maldarelli

Wooly Mammoth
Health

No, the woolly mammoth won’t actually be resurrected by 2019

By Mary Beth Griggs

CRISPR
Health

Who should be allowed to use CRISPR?

By Claire Maldarelli

Scientists may have just made a malaria vaccine breakthrough
Health

Scientists may have just made a malaria vaccine breakthrough

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

U.S. science advisory committee supports genetic modification of human embryos
Health

U.S. science advisory committee supports genetic modification of human embryos

By Claire Maldarelli

Is it too late for me to get a flu shot?
Health

Is it too late for me to get a flu shot?

By Mary Beth Griggs

crispr
Health

Doctors successfully treat two babies with leukemia using gene-edited immune cells

By Claire Maldarelli

This may be the most promising herpes vaccine ever
Health

This may be the most promising herpes vaccine ever

By Rachel Feltman

A stomach grown in a petri dish could help scientists understand our guts
Health

A stomach grown in a petri dish could help scientists understand our guts

By Claire Maldarelli

The hospital of the future may be a tiny, high-tech medical kit
Health

The hospital of the future may be a tiny, high-tech medical kit

By Claire Maldarelli

Silly Putty makes for super-sensitive sensors
Health

Silly Putty makes for super-sensitive sensors

By Sophie Bushwick

New device would use electricity to plug gushing wounds
Health

New device would use electricity to plug gushing wounds

By Claire Maldarelli

CRISPR
Health

Human patient treated with CRISPR gene editing for the first time

By Michael Koziol

This pill delivers medication days or weeks after it’s swallowed
Health

This pill delivers medication days or weeks after it’s swallowed

By Claire Maldarelli

Wireless brain implants are helping paralyzed monkeys walk again
Health

Wireless brain implants are helping paralyzed monkeys walk again

By Claire Maldarelli

What IUDs are, how they work, and why you might want to get one
Health

What IUDs are, how they work, and why you might want to get one

By Rachel Feltman

There’s No Need To Fear Gene-Edited Food
Health

There’s No Need To Fear Gene-Edited Food

By Jen Schwartz

facial nerve
Health

A Mysterious Nerve Condition Paralyzed Half My Face

By Peter Hess

EpiPens Versus Dissolvable Tablets
Health

Forget The EpiPen—It’s Time For An Epi-Pill

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We Are Closer To Curing All Diseases Than We Think
Health

We Are Closer To Curing All Diseases Than We Think

By Susmita Baral

The Americas Just Eliminated Measles, But Vaccination Will Help It Stay Gone
Health

The Americas Just Eliminated Measles, But Vaccination Will Help It Stay Gone

By Mary Beth Griggs

New 3D Printed Material Can Help Regenerate Bones
Technology

New 3D Printed Material Can Help Regenerate Bones

By Kate Baggaley

Should You Build Your Own EpiPen?
Health

Should You Build Your Own EpiPen?

By Peter Hess

Cone Snail Venom Could Help Create Speedy Diabetes Treatments
Health

Cone Snail Venom Could Help Create Speedy Diabetes Treatments

By Kate Baggaley

CRISPR-Modified Corn May Soon Be Ready For Market
Health

CRISPR-Modified Corn May Soon Be Ready For Market

By Alexandra Ossola

Patrick Hardison putting on his shirt
Health

A Day In The Life Of Patrick Hardison, Face Transplant Survivor

By Matt Giles

heart rate patch
Health

Flashy Wearable Patch Sees Under Your Skin

By Samantha Cole

crispr
Health

Most Americans Are Still Wary Of Becoming Superhumans

By Claire Maldarelli

Smart Stitches Send Data As They Heal Wounds
Health

Smart Stitches Send Data As They Heal Wounds

By Coby McDonald

Karl Urban stars as Dr. Leonard McCoy in *Star Trek: Beyond*
Science

Bones Deep

By Mary Beth Griggs

Endangered black-footed ferrets.
Health

Government Drones Will Shoot Vaccinated M&Ms At Prairie Dogs

By Kelsey D. Atherton

‘Super Sniffer’ Mice Engineered For Ultra-Powerful Sense of Smell
Technology

‘Super Sniffer’ Mice Engineered For Ultra-Powerful Sense of Smell

By Kate Baggaley

The End Of Root Canals?
Health

The End Of Root Canals?

By Coby McDonald

Tiny Rocket Could One Day Deliver Meds Or Hunt For Cancer In Your Body
Technology

Tiny Rocket Could One Day Deliver Meds Or Hunt For Cancer In Your Body

By Coby McDonald

New Zika Study Results Could Help Design A Vaccine
Health

New Zika Study Results Could Help Design A Vaccine

By Claire Maldarelli

Helium Balloons
Health

Researchers Just Found A Huge Underground Helium Pool In Africa

By Mary Beth Griggs

Astronauts Will Use Mold To Grow Medicine In Space
Science

Astronauts Will Use Mold To Grow Medicine In Space

By Sarah Fecht

Women Are Being Excluded From Clinical Trials
Health

Women Are Being Excluded From Clinical Trials

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

This Wearable System Might Help Asthma Sufferers Avoid Attacks
Health

This Wearable System Might Help Asthma Sufferers Avoid Attacks

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A Pill That Monitors Your Vital Signs
Health

A Pill That Monitors Your Vital Signs

By Claire Maldarelli

IBM Creates A Molecule That Could Destroy All Viruses
Health

IBM Creates A Molecule That Could Destroy All Viruses

By Claire Maldarelli

STAR performing surgery.
Health

Autonomous Robot Performs Successful Surgery On Living Pig

By Claire Maldarelli

brain scans
Health

A Biotech Company Is Trying To Wake Up The Brain After Death

By Kate Baggaley

Is DIY Kitchen CRISPR A Class Issue?
Health

Is DIY Kitchen CRISPR A Class Issue?

By Steph Yin

Retina
Health

Gene Therapy For Congenital Blindness Has Long-Lasting Effect

By Alexandra Ossola

Scientists Create Primitive Sperm From Skin Cells
Health

Scientists Create Primitive Sperm From Skin Cells

By Alexandra Ossola

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