Articles by

Emily Mullin

The FDA Approves Weight Loss Drug Zepbound, a Wegovy and Ozempic Rival

The blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy has a new rival. Today, the US Food and Drug Administration...

New Jersey Keeps Newborn DNA for 23 Years. Parents Are Suing

When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she didn’t think twice about the newborn health screening they received...

The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just Died

Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who was the second person to receive a...

The Vampire Bat Is Moving Closer to the US. That’s a Problem

In 2010, a 19-year-old migrant farmworker from Mexico arrived at a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana unknowingly carrying...

A Personalized Brain Implant Curbed a Woman’s OCD

Amber Pearson has had a severe form of obsessive compulsive disorder since she was in high school....

New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy

Two companies have launched clinical trials to see if they can restore hearing to children with a...

These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu

This month, the Cambodian government reported that two people there died of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or...

A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years

Around the world, there aren’t enough donor kidneys available for everyone who needs one. Scientists are hoping...