The Download: A transplant disaster, and online abortion networks
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Biotechnology
The gene-edited pig heart given to a dying patient was infected with a pig virus
The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a landmark operation carried a porcine virus that
Read MoreThe Download: Fertility for trans men, and a Q&A with CRISPR’s co-creator
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Trans men’s eggs have been matured in the lab—and could help them have children
Ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of underdeveloped eggs, held in a kind of suspended animation. Each month, one matures and
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The scientist who co-created CRISPR isn’t ruling out engineered babies someday
The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her
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Aging clocks aim to predict how long you’ll live
Age is much more than the number of birthdays you’ve clocked. Stress, sleep, and diet all influence how our organs
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How a Zambian morgue is exposing the real covid toll in Africa
The morgue at Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH), a sprawling brick facility near the center of Zambia’s capital, is not
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A battle is raging over long covid in children
Before Jasmin got covid-19 last year, she was an especially active 10-year-old. She loved dancing, swimming, and gymnastics. “She was
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The creator of the CRISPR babies has been released from a Chinese prison
The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a
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