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In the spring of 2019, Lauren Edwards was a graduate student studying neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta and was running local initiatives to support women of color. As a …
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Hoping to learn what sets our brains apart from those of the Neanderthals, scientists have inserted a gene from our extinct cousins into human brain organoids — miniature versions of …
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Biologists tend not to discuss experimental results on a handful of cells and a single solitary mouse — too preliminary, too sketchy. David Liu of the Broad Institute therefore had …
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The recurrence of cancer months or even years after successful treatment is an all too common phenomenon, and scientists have been chipping away at understanding how undetectable cells can once …
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What got you interested in science? How would you explain your research to a 10-year-old? And how has that research changed during the Covid-19 pandemic? STAT posed those questions to …
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California voters have again backed spending billions of dollars for stem cell research with the approval of a ballot measure. The initiative, Proposition 14, had been narrowly leading since Election …
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A lab experiment aimed at fixing defective DNA in human embryos shows what can go wrong with this type of gene editing and why leading scientists say it’s too unsafe …
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Even for one of the most high-profile virologists in the midst of the pandemic, it was not an event that will be easily forgotten. For nearly 10 hours on a …
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The past five years have been packed with medical and scientific advances, a series of public health crises that have gripped the world, and uproar over rising prescription drug costs. …
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