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They Created a Drug for Susannah. What About Millions of Other Patients?

Susannah Rosen, 8, spent much of her childhood in hospitals in New York City as doctors documented the gradual loss of her ability to...

The Disease Took Zara, Then Sara. Could Ayla Be Saved?

Dr. Chakraborty wanted to start treating Zara, but the day she was supposed to get her first infusion, her lungs collapsed, and she spent...

Gene Treatment for Rare Epilepsy Causes Brain Side Effect in 2 Children

Weeks after Valeria Schenkel took an experimental drug named after her, the daily seizures that had afflicted her from birth became less frequent. But...

Lasker Award Honors Development of Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Test

It was a startling discovery: Tiny pieces of an unborn baby’s DNA were found floating through its mother’s bloodstream — not inside the mother’s...

Covid and Omicron Variants: Lessons From Gamma, Iota and Mu

In early 2021, scientists in Colombia discovered a worrisome new coronavirus variant. This variant, eventually known as Mu, had several troubling mutations that experts...

Philanthropists Push Police Searches of DNA Databases

Mr. Mittelman, Othram’s C.E.O., said his company had received more than $400,000 from philanthropic donors. According to Crunchbase, the start-up has also raised $28.5...

A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy

Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing machines, is tiny compared with the tech giants of Silicon Valley. But like Google and Facebook, Illumina now...

In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal

“To have something in a sewershed that you’re detecting, you need a fair bit of it around,” said Dr. Adam Lauring, a virologist at...

How Omicron’s Mutations Allow It To Thrive

Because an immunocompromised host doesn’t produce a lot of antibodies, many viruses are left to propagate. And new mutant viruses that resist the antibodies...

In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig

“It was either die or do this transplant,” Mr. Bennett said before the surgery, according to officials at the University of Maryland Medical Center....

Omicron Is a Dress Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic

Seek and you shall findIn any other context, it would have been unremarkable: On Sunday, Nov. 28, a San Francisco resident who had been...

Why Didn’t the U.S. Detect Omicron Cases Sooner?

Last Friday, just a day after South African scientists first announced the discovery of the Omicron variant, Europe reported its first case: The new...

The Gene-Synthesis Revolution

At Ginkgo, the synthesized DNA is then inserted into a host cell, perhaps yeast, which starts producing enzymes and peptides. Trial and error follow....

Does Estrogen Impact Exercise? What Scientists Are Learning

These results highlight the “complexity of physical activity behavior,” Dr. Ingraham said, and how the willingness to spontaneously move — or not — for...

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