The Long, Contentious Battle to Regulate Gain-of-Function Work
Dec 11, 2024 · Concerns about Covid-19’s origins have brought calls for additional oversight of U.S. labs. That effort seems misplaced to some researchers, effectively hamstringing U.S. …
Opinion: Caring for Patients from Conflict Zones - undark.org
Dec 12, 2024 · I n recent months, I’ve taken a growing interest in reading the accounts of health care workers from conflict zones, areas of the world caught in a crossfire of warring factions, …
Book Review: A Reverent Tribute to Disappearing Creatures
Dec 27, 2024 · W riters whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how to convey …
The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
Nov 26, 2024 · O n e bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company’s new innovation: an …
Mixed Lessons from Intentionally Infecting People with Covid-19
Jan 1, 2025 · W hen the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the pandemic?. The …
The Elusive Payoff of Gain-of-Function Research
Dec 23, 2024 · I n March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the …
Court Tells EPA to Consider Fluoride Risk, to Dentists’ Dismay
Oct 7, 2024 · A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection …
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
Aug 26, 2024 · A bout three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid …
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Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Dec 3, 2024 · Indeed, skeptics sometimes associate geoengineering with supervillain behavior, like a famous episode of The Simpsons in which the robber baron Mr. Burns blocks the sun. …