Articles by

Emily Mullin

A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test

Just a tiny amount of fentanyl, the equivalent of a few grains of sand, is enough to...

Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People

Brain implant developer Paradromics has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to test its...

Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid

Obesity wonder drugs Wegovy and Zepbound are already showing that they can reduce the risk of cardiovascular...

A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half

In a step toward the wider use of gene editing, a treatment that uses Crispr successfully slashed...

A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the...

Man Has Pig Kidney Removed After Living With It for a Record 9 Months

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a genetically engineered pig kidney from a 67-year-old New Hampshire...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

After the latest round of mass firings at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over...

Covid Shots Are About to Be Widely Available Again

Covid-19 vaccines are about to become widely available again across the United States, following several weeks of...