Articles by

Emily Mullin

A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working

The changing nature of the virus also makes it difficult to conduct human clinical trials and get...

Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice

Your gut has an obvious job: It processes the food you eat. But it has another important...

This Startup Is Using AI to Unearth New Smells

The team posted its findings to the preprint server bioRxiv in September, and the paper is currently being...

The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing

The Covid-19 crisis highlighted certain economic and welfare issues associated with using animals for research. Pandemic-related closures meant...

Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants

Starting in the 1960s, doctors attempted transplants of kidneys, hearts, and livers from baboons and chimpanzees—humans’ closest...

A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing

In April 2016, Waseem Qasim, a professor of cell and gene therapy, was captivated by a new scientific...

The Crispr Baby Scientist Is Back. Here’s What He’s Doing Next

Some scientists and ethicists think He deserves a chance to prove that he’s capable of producing scientifically...

The Era of One-Shot, Multimillion-Dollar Genetic Cures Is Here

The company said the price was determined with consideration of the “clinical, societal, economic, and innovative value...