Shenzhen, China – China has suspended He Jiankui – the scientist who claims to have produced the world’s first gene-edited babies, and he now looks set to face punishment after publicly revealing research many in the scientific community condemned as irresponsible. He’s work was “extremely abominable in nature”, Xi Nanping, vice minister of the Ministry […]
BEIJING — China said on Thursday that it had suspended the work of a scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies, saying his conduct appeared to be unethical and in violation of Chinese law. The scientist, He Jiankui, announced on Monday that he had used the gene-editing technique Crispr to […]
Among the biggest threats humans face in a warming climate is heat stress, which not only kills people directly but can also lead to kidney and cardiovascular disease, the report noted. Higher temperatures can also diminish people’s ability to work, particularly in agriculture, leading to tens of billions of hours of lost labor capacity each […]
(Tip: If you can smell it, then your breath is flat-out noxious, as most of us can’t tell on our own, dentists say.) If your mouth funk rates as “stank-nasty,” then you — and all those around you — are victims of halitosis, breath that smells so repulsive it could only be attractive to buzzards […]
Cases of AFM, by state, confirmed in 2018. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) A rare disease that preys upon the spinal cord, resulting in muscular weakness and paralysis, has spread across the United States. The CDC has confirmed two cases of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, in New York City and six in New […]
Three more students at the University of Maryland have become sickened by the Adenovirus — less than a week after the school announced one student’s death from a deadly strain of the virus. The university health center’s director, David McBride, said none of the new cases required hospitalization, according to Fox 45. “Please remember that Adenoviruses are […]
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Bucks are seen in one of the pens at the Wilderness Whitetails breeding farm in Rosholt, Wis. Fatal chronic wasting disease has spread among Wisconsin’s wild and captive deer populations since 2002. (Photo: Rich Kremer, Wisconsin Public Radio) Rapidly growing numbers of cases of chronic wasting disease are appearing on deer and elk farms and hunting […]
When Dan Eckerson was a teenager and newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, he was told his life expectancy would be only to his early 30s. Decades later he continues to live a very active life, running, hiking and playing hockey among his many athletic pursuits. People who know him may not even know he […]
Women who drink tea or coffee during pregnancy are more likely to have small babies, research suggests. Even women who drink less than the ‘safe’ cutoff of 200mg caffeine – about two mugs of instant coffee or three cups of tea – are more at risk of having low-birth weight or premature newborns. The researchers, […]
