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Florida sees increase in dengue fever cases while regulators mull GMO gene drive mosquito release
Antibody testing in the Key Largo area has identified another 11 cases of dengue fever, bringing the total this year ...
40% of LGBTQ youths contemplated suicide over the past year
Forty percent of young LGBTQ people have considered suicide in the last year; that rises to more than half for ...
With the global population growing, should we worry about future food shortages?
There's a common warning about our planet's future: the risk of food shortages. "We've got a growing world and a ...
Podcast: Gene therapy could be best hope to cure Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Conner Curran was 4 when he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His muscles were already beginning to waste away ...
$3 million per person price tag set on first gene therapy for hemophilia expected ready this fall
"It's been absolutely brilliant and life-changing for me," says [Jack] Grehan, 26, of Billinge in North West England. He received ...
AquaBounty US facility grows non-GMO Atlantic salmon as it prepares to produce biotech fish
AquaBounty Technologies’s land-based facility in Albany, Indiana, began producing non-GMO Atlantic salmon while waiting for federal permission to import the ...
1 year later, first gene edited sickle cell patient is functionally cured
She's the first person with a genetic disorder to get treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique ...
Podcast: Cannabis and psychedelic drugs slowly gain acceptance as revolutionary ways to treat trauma
People who have been taking antidepressants for several years sometimes hit a wall, a point when that treatment no longer ...
Johnson & Johnson halts talcum powder sales in the US and Canada, citing declining demand in the face of cancer lawsuits
Johnson & Johnson will stop selling talcum-based baby powder in the United States and Canada after being ordered to pay ...
‘It changed the world’: Exploring 60 years with the birth control pill
Loretta Ross, an activist and visiting women's studies professor at Smith College, was among the first generation of young women ...
World Health Organization says “no evidence” recovered coronavirus patients are protected from a second infection, then reverses itself one day later
[Editors note: This story has changed as the position of the World Health Organization retracted its original assertion. As a ...
Coronavirus ’10 times deadlier than 2009 flu pandemic’; immunity still an unknown, says World Health Organization
People who have recovered from COVID-19 may or may not be immune to getting sick again – and it's too ...
Podcast: With honeybees no longer abandoning their colonies, deadly Varroa destructor mite now biggest threat to bee health
University of Maryland entomologist Samuel Ramsey sits down with NPR's Maddie Sofia to discuss how America's honeybees are faring in ...
‘This has never happened before’: CDC ‘conspicuously silent’ during coronavirus outbreak
At a time when the nation is desperate for authoritative information about the coronavirus pandemic, the country's foremost agency for ...
Targeting blindness with CRISPR: Doctors attempt first editing of genes inside a human body
For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to edit a gene while the DNA ...
Brain wave patterns could eliminate ‘trial and error’ approach to antidepressants
Scientists have taken a small step toward personalizing treatment for depression. A study of more than 300 people with major ...
Another human species? Still undiscovered hominid line left ‘ghost DNA’ in West African genomes
About 50,000 years ago, ancient humans in what is now West Africa apparently procreated with another group of ancient humans ...
Podcast: Crop damage caused by dicamba raises questions about how EPA will handle Bayer’s request to re-approve herbicide in late 2020
Every summer for the past three years, the phones have been ringing like crazy in the Office of the Indiana ...
Irregularity in the brain’s ‘insulation’ may offer way to ‘prevent or even reverse’ autism symptoms
Scientists have found a clue to how autism spectrum disorder disrupts the brain's information highways. The problem involves cells that ...
Using ‘mini brains’ to study Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other disorders hits a potential snag
Brain organoids, often called "minibrains," have changed the way scientists study human brain development and disorders like autism. But the ...
‘Simpler, cheaper’ alternative to IVF promised by controversial embryo research
Researchers have conducted a controversial study that involved paying dozens of young women at a hospital near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, ...
Ben & Jerry’s drops ‘happy’ cows marketing claim, following lawsuit alleging it misleads consumers about animal welfare
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. has dropped the claim that the milk for its ice cream comes from "happy" cows ...
Podcast: Recovering memories through song: Could this be a ‘standard of care’ for dementia patients?
PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYLINE: The connection between music and memory was a life-changing experience for Nancy Gustafson, a retired opera singer ...
Podcast: Dairy farmers turn methane from food waste into renewable electricity
If you piled up all the food that's not eaten over the course of a year in the U.S., it ...
Podcast: A closer look at the CRISPR experiment that could cure sickle cell disease
Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss., volunteered for one of the most anticipated medical experiments in decades: the first attempt ...
Podcast: Wild plants help protect key food crops from climate change, disease
Call it a tale of science and derring-do. An international team of researchers has spent six years fanning across the ...
How does a 4,000-year-old meal taste? Pretty good, according to recreated Babylonian recipes
What did a meal taste like nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia? Pretty good, according to a team of ...
New use for CRISPR: Keeping viruses like Zika and influenza from making people sick
It's not easy to treat viral infections. Just ask anyone with a bad cold or a case of the flu ...
