Electron microscope image of a measles virus particle. (Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, via AP, File) Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP/Centers for Disease Control and hide caption toggle caption Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP/Centers for Disease Control and An official in Pennsylvania has confirmed the
Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, China, hosted one of the gene-therapy trials that led to the death of a child last year.Credit: Costfoto/Sipa USA/Alamy The deaths of two children in separate gene-editing trials in China raise serious questions about oversight and could have a profound effect on the country’s biomedical industry, say researchers, ethicists and legal
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NEW YORK — Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian who in poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments of an industrial, commercialized society, has died. He was 92. His daughter, Mary Berry, confirmed on Monday that he died in his home
While professional football and the degenerative brain disease known as CTE have long been linked, true prevalence has remained an open question. A new study finds that, among former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, at least a quarter had CTE. Patrick Smith/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick Smith/Getty Images For years,
A 17-year-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase in Thailand died from suffocation, according to authorities. Police in the coastal city of Pattaya previously said they had found Tunchanok Donhomla’s naked body in a bag near a railway track in the early hours of 27 June. This was just 15 minutes after they
