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The CDC recommends booster shots for healthcare workers and other at-risk groups
Sep 24, 2021 5:04 PM
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Nov 19, 2020
The US is running out of wasp venom. That’s bad.
The same ingredient that causes severe allergic reactions in some people can also help save them. But new FDA guidelines are making it harder to come by.
Apr 18, 2019
CRISPR is now being used on humans in the U.S.
The gene editing trial has two patients so far.
Mar 6, 2019
The treatment that cured two H.I.V. cases won’t work for most patients
What a second H.I.V. remission means—and what it doesn't.
Oct 1, 2018
This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine is shared by a cancer-fighting (and harmonica-playing) Texan
The 2018 Nobel Prize honors what might be our best shot at beating cancer.
Dec 12, 2017
New trials show cancer immunotherapy can be incredibly effective—and incredibly dangerous
CAR T continues to show promise for otherwise incurable cancers.
Aug 30, 2017
The FDA just approved a game-changing cancer treatment
CAR T-cell immunotherapy is a brand new way treat cancer.
Jan 28, 2017
Doctors successfully treat two babies with leukemia using gene-edited immune cells
It’s a promising approach, but still needs a lot more research
Oct 15, 2016
Why immunotherapy could be the cure to cancer we have all been waiting for
Cancer research leader Carl June on how targeting immune cells could provide potentially lifelong protection
Mar 23, 2016
Implanted Device Fights Plaque Buildup In Brain
It releases antibodies to combat deposits linked to Alzheimer's
