Articles by

Emily Mullin

A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality

There’s a well-established inverse relationship between a dog’s size and its expected lifespan. Bernese mountain dogs and...

The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.The one-time...

A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel...

Wegovy Slashes the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in a Landmark Trial

More than half the world’s population is expected to be overweight or obese by 2035. Excess weight...

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...