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TV Reporters Bumble Their Way Through San Bernardino Shooter’s Apartment
This is one of the most bizarre moments in cable news history. By Kia Makarechi.
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Brazilian courts tussle over unproven cancer treatment
Patients demand access to compound despite lack of clinical testing. By Heidi Ledford. (Nov. 24)
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Grace Notes
Rowan Williams reviews “Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity,” by Larissa MacFarquhar.
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The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide
Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price. By Karen Weise.
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Where to Draw the Line on Gene-Editing Technology
New techniques that could make germline genetic engineering unprecedentedly easy are forcing policymakers to confront the ethical implications of moving forward
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China ‘clone factory’ scientist eyes human replication
Boyalife, its partners are building the giant plant in Chinese port of Tianjin, where it is due to go into production within the next seven months
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Bacteria on the Brain
A brilliant neurosurgeon offered an untested therapy to dying cancer patients. Was it innovation or overreach? By Emily Eakin.
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Brain study seeks roots of suicide
A clinical trial will look at the neurological structure and function of people who have attempted suicide. By Sara Reardon.
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A Shortage of Legitimate Donors Is Fuelling the Black Market Organ Trade
As Wales becomes the latest country to make organ donation opt-out, the illegal organ trade continues around the world. By Rich Wordsworth.
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The Feminist Asylum That Redefined Women’s Mental-Health Treatment
When it opened in the 1920s, California’s Rockhaven sanitarium took a radically different approach than the other institutions of its time. By April Wolfe.
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China ‘cloning factory’ to produce cattle, racehorses and pets
World’s largest cloning facility in China aims to produce a million cattle a year, along with other animals. By Neil Connor.
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‘Anti-malarial mosquitoes’ created using controversial genetic technology
Scientists aim to tackle malaria by creating insects unable to spread the parasite, but caution urged over unpredictable ecological consequences. By Ian Sample.
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Hard labour: the case for testing drugs on pregnant women
Traditionally, expectant mothers have been excluded from clinical trials, but could this practice be doing more harm than good? Emily Anthes investigates.
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Alzheimer’s introduced to Colombian town by Spanish conquistador
Yarumal in Colombia is famous for having thousands of cases of Alzheimer’s disease – now the origin has been traced to a single Spanish conquistador in the early 17th century
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Bad thoughts can’t make you sick, that’s just magical thinking
The belief that physical illness can be psychosomatic, or caused by the mind, has long been seductive, capturing the imagination of doctors and writers alike... By Angela Kennedy.
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What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees Fleeing Nazi Europe
A sobering history lesson we should consider today.
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Ethical Questions Arise After Scientists Brew Super Powerful 'SARS 2.0' Virus
More than a decade after its outbreak, the name “SARS” still incites memories of worldwide panic over a disease that, we thought at the time, couldn’t be stopped. Now, 13 years later, scientists have created a hybrid version of a virus that could be the world’s next pandemic, a “SARS 2.0.” The findings have brought up ethical questions about whether scientists should pursue “gain-of-function” research, or work that could increase the virulence of certain...
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Plan to Export Chimps Tests Law to Protect Species
A plan to export eight chimps from a research center in Atlanta to a zoo in England is a first test of an endangered species listing that says that only actions that benefit chimpanzees as a species should be allowed. By James Gorman.
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Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research
Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells. By Declan Butler.
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Made to order
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse? By Erik Parens.
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