Articles by

Emily Mullin

How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat

A new, highly transmissible strain of influenza emerges. A pesticide-resistant insect decimates huge swaths of crops. A...

The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain Zaps

“It may be that stimulation of the nucleus accumbens altered the reward circuitry in the brain such...

How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation

As unease about Russia's nuclear saber-rattling grows, along with concerns about the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear...

Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats

The tiny blobs of lab-grown human brain tissue were just specks, each measuring a few millimeters in...

A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr

Dornbusch thinks this strategy will spare patients from serious side effects and “off-target” edits—unintentional cuts elsewhere in...

The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here

Comparing those genomes to those of people without schizophrenia has allowed investigators to uncover multiple genes that...

There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies

The Crispr components can’t naturally get into cells on their own, so Intellia uses a delivery system...

How a ‘Living Drug’ Could Treat Autoimmune Disease

In lupus, a type of autoimmune disease, the body's natural defense system can't tell the difference between...