I’m very aware of how privileged I am to have been an early recipient and to reap the benefits of this groundbreaking new treatment. People with...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A Disney director tried—and...
With the rise of gene sequencing, doctors can now decode people’s genomes and then scour the DNA data for possible culprits. Sometimes, the cause is clear,...
We do know of one case in which it does not seem to have worked. A baby was born from an embryo that PGT revealed to...
Theileria can cause cows to abort their fetuses. It can also cause anemia so severe that a cow will die. In Australia, where the disease has...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new tick-borne disease...
It’s true that we tend to assign a special status to fetuses. As someone who has been pregnant, I know that everyone has an opinion on...
Last October, word began to spread among researchers that the World Health Organization was considering a change to its International Classification of Diseases, a catalog used...
The research, described in Nature Biomedical Engineering, found that the model was more effective at identifying issues such as pneumonia, collapsed lungs, and lesions than other...
Ashton Kutcher opened up this week about having suffered from a rare autoimmune disease. The renowned actor, who has been vocal about running his first marathon...