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SAVING A BABY FROM GENETIC DISEASE AS A DOCTOR WHO TREATS BABIES WITH RARE GENETIC diseases, Dr. Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, director of the Gene Therapy for Inherited Metabolic Disorders Frontier Program

When James Watson died on 6th November last year at the age of 97, he was survived by a wife, two sons and a severely tarnished reputation. Watson was one of the world’s most famous scientists, having

We are all told the same story as children: that we grew from a single cell into a human being. We learn that all of our trillions of cells developed from the first union of egg and sperm, and that we

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A NEW TREATMENT FOR MALARIA MALARIA DEATHS WERE DECLINING NOT THAT LONG AGO. Now, they have ticked back up. The disease, spread by mosquitoes, currently kills more than 600,000 people annually, most o

What doesn’t fuel us, may still be fuel! Did you know that researchers are turning food waste into sustainable plane fuel? With heat and pressure, dinner scraps can be transformed into an oil which in