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A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive
In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his arm and inspected it under a microscope. Dr. Viault’s red blood cells, which ferry oxygen, had surged 42 percent. He had discovered ...
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Innovative Cancer Treatment May Sometimes Cause Cancer, F.D.A. Says
The News A lifesaving cancer treatment may itself cause cancers, the Food and Drug Administration reported on Tuesday. The treatment, called CAR-T was first approved in November 2017 for life-threatening blood cancers. But, the F.D.A. said, it had ...
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Sickle-Cell Treatment Created With Gene Editing Wins U.K. Approval
The first treatment that relies on CRISPR is expected to receive U.S. approval next month. But it may cost millions of dollars per patient.
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Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Researcher Who Cloned Mice, Dies at 95
Working separately from the Scottish team that had earlier cloned Dolly the sheep, he and his team pioneered an easier, more successful method.
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Health
Flipping a Switch and Making Cancers Self-Destruct
Researchers at Stanford devised a strange new molecule that could lead to drugs that arm genes and make cancers work against themselves.
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