Articles by

Emily Mullin

The World’s First Crispr Drug Gets a Slow Start

Deshawn “DJ” Chow waited a year to receive a treatment that could change his life. The 19-year-old...

CDC Confirms First US Case of Severe Bird Flu

The United States has now seen dozens of human bird flu cases this year, all of them...

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered...

RFK Plans to Take on Big Pharma. It’s Easier Said Than Done

Last month, President-elect Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to be the next...

Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required

Alex Smith was 11 years old when he lost his right arm in 2003. A drunk driver...

Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test...

The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients

Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr...

Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African...