Articles by

Emily Mullin

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...

States’ Abortion Rights Wins May Be Short-Lived Under a Second Trump Term

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, it ended the constitutional right...

A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People

For years, they had been losing their central vision—what allows people to see letters, faces, and details...

After Hurricane Milton, Get Ready for Mold

After Milton made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in western Florida last week, some residents who...

Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air

As Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast the evening of October 9, a deluge of...