Categories → #medical
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CRISPR: A Powerful Way to Change DNAWe can change the world with gene editing—but should we?
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Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the BrainMost people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only barely aware of the diseases caused by them, except, perhaps, for mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science? a science that might lead to cures for some of humankind's most devastating diseases
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have ToIt’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?
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The politics of vaccination: A global historyMass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime.