Enlarge this image In London to address a gene-editing summit last week, Victoria Gray took a break to visit Sir John Soane’s…

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Ethical concerns temper optimism about gene-editing for human diseases
by Rob Stein March 8, 2023Enlarge this image Researchers meeting in London this week concluded that techniques that have made it easier to manipulate DNA still produce…
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Experts weigh medical advances in gene-editing with ethical dilemmas
by Rob Stein March 6, 2023Enlarge this image Biophysicist He Jiankui addressed the last international summit on human genome editing in Hong Kong in 2018. His experiments…
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Enlarge this image The COVID-19 dashboard created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering is displayed during a briefing…
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This winter’s U.S. COVID surge is fading fast, likely thanks to a ‘wall’ of immunity
by Rob Stein February 3, 2023Enlarge this image Immunity Americans acquired through vaccination or via prior infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus may account for the lighter than…
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The FDA considers a major shift in the nation’s COVID vaccine strategy
by Rob Stein January 23, 2023Enlarge this image Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana vaccinates Pri DeSilva, associate director of Individual and Corporate Giving, with a fourth Pfizer…
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Enlarge this image With COVID, flu and cold viruses spreading widely this winter, researchers looked into whether you can get infected with…
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China’s COVID surge prompts CDC to expand a hunt for new variants among air travelers
by Rob Stein January 14, 2023Enlarge this image In hopes of getting a better sense of which SARS-CoV-2 variants might be coming into the U.S., the Centers…