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
Skin cancer cells viewed under a microscope. Such images can reveal how the cancer spreads.Credit: NCI Center for Cancer Research/NCI/SPL The announcement on 19 August that people with melanoma who received a personalized vaccine lived longer without a cancer recurrence than those who didn’t have the vaccine is a sensation for the field. The results
Physicians test new narcolepsy treatments by checking whether the drugs help people to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night.Credit: Lucia Graphus/Alamy Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug designed to treat the root cause of narcolepsy, a condition that affects millions of people by causing extreme sleepiness
Federal regulators are considering allowing compounding pharmacies to manufacture several peptides that are currently popular with consumers. George Frey/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide title toggle title George Frey/Bloomberg/Getty Images Every day, Dr. Alexander Weber faces another round of questions about peptides and whether trendy therapies can help his patients recover from sports injuries or surgeries. He doesn’t
