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An estimated 500,000 people are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States each year, but the causes and mechanisms of the condition remain a neurological mystery. A recent study looked ...

Crispr instruments. Image by Tim Sandle (taken at the Design Museum, London). Crispr instruments. Image by Tim Sandle (taken at the Design Museum, London). Scientists are hailing a key gene, said to ...

Editor’s note: On June 3, 2025, KJ Muldoon was discharged from the hospital and is now at home with his family. When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy ...