How best to care for LGBT patients? New medical guide reflects change May 4, 2015 Harvey Makadon, professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, authored this article…
New screening method may identify more ovarian cancers May 4, 2015 A personalized method for interpreting blood tests identifies more ovarian cancer cases than a…
A guide to CRISPR, the human gene-editing tool that has scientists excited — and terrified May 4, 2015 Editing the genetic material of human embryos was a first — and the April 18 publication of the…
DNA editing takes a serious step forward -- for better or worse May 3, 2015 So when a Chinese team revealed last month that it had used a new laboratory technique to alter a…
Success of gene therapy to treat blind fades with follow-up May 3, 2015 A gene therapy that helped restore sight in patients with a rare form of childhood blindness appears…
Are you easily pleased? May 2, 2015 One thing that is known about the placebo effect is that it involves several brain systems, each…
Divestment campaigns May 2, 2015 James Recht, assistant professor of psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, authored this letter to…
The “bionic leaf” May 1, 2015 Harvard scientists have created a “bionic leaf” that converts solar energy into a liquid fuel. The…
Hearts on trial May 1, 2015 As researchers conduct the most rigorous human trials of cardiac cell therapies yet attempted, a…
Speedy drug approvals have become the rule, not the exception May 1, 2015 Congress has over the past few decades passed a series of special approval pathways for important…
The health benefits of vitamin D: Are you getting enough? May 1, 2015 In recent years, vitamin D has gained a reputation for being a miracle nutrient of sorts— boasting…
Ancient DNA tells a new human story May 1, 2015 Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes…
