Laura Ungar

Infecciones anteriores de COVID-19 podrían ofrecer mayor protección ante resfriados, dice estudio

June 12, 2024 at 11:38 p.m.

Si ha tenido COVID-19, es posible que tenga algo de protección contra algunas versiones de la gripe común.Un estudio nuevo sugiere que infecciones de COVID-19 anteriores reducen el riesgo de...

Past COVID infections may help protect against certain colds. Could it lead to better vaccines?

June 12, 2024 at 11:45 p.m.

If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.A new study suggests previous COVID-19 infections lower the risk of getting colds...

FILE - This microscope image shows the 46 human chromosomes, blue, with telomeres appearing as white pinpoints. Scientists have found the genetic cause of a neurodevelopmental disorder that they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people. And they hope their discovery leads to a new diagnosis that can provide answers to families. They published their findings in the journal Nature Medicine on Friday (Hesed Padilla-Nash, Thomas Ried/National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health via AP, File)

Researchers find a single, surprising gene behind a disorder that causes intellectual disability

May 31, 2024 at 4:43 p.m.

Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people. And they hope their discovery...

ARCHIVO - Diagramas médicos en el pasillo de una de las salas de un hospital de Mississippi, el 29 de febrero de 2024. (AP Foto/Rogelio V. Solis, Archivo)

Menos medicos de EEUU solicitan residencias; la caida fue mayor en estados con prohibicion al aborto

May 10, 2024 at 12:50 a.m.

Menos médicos graduados de Estados Unidos están solicitando una plaza en programas de residencia, pero el descenso fue más notable en los estados que tienen prohibiciones del aborto.Las cifras publicadas...

FILE - Medical diagrams are posted in a hallway of one of the wings of a hospital in Mississippi on Feb. 29, 2024. An analysis released Thursday, May 9, 2024, by the Association of American Medical Colleges found that fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more striking in states that ban abortion compared with other states. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

States with abortion bans saw greater drops in medical school graduates applying for residencies

May 10, 2024 at 12:52 a.m.

Fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more striking in states that ban abortion compared with other states.Figures released Thursday by the Association...

After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as ‘the underground’

May 4, 2024 at 12:47 p.m.

NAMPA, Idaho — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier...

FILE - Holstein heifers are loaded into trucks at a dairy in Oregon on Jan. 21, 2011. Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday, April 24, 2024, as they try to track and control the growing outbreak. (Kobbi R. Blair/Statesman-Journal via AP, File)

More cows are being tested and tracked for bird flu. Here’s what that means

April 24, 2024 at 9:25 p.m.

U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak....

FILE - This 1972 microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Treponema pallidum bacterium which causes the disease syphilis. With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant women be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued updated its guidance to doctors on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Susan Lindsley/CDC via AP)

As syphilis cases among US newborns soar, doctors group advises more screening during pregnancy

April 18, 2024 at 9:59 p.m.

With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group now recommends that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection.The American College of Obstetricians and...

La alcaldesa de Phoenix, Kate Gallego, habla con la prensa en el Capitolio estatal en Phoenix el martes 9 de abril de 2024. (AP Foto/Jonathan Copper)

Prohibicion de aborto en Arizona desataria avalancha de solicitudes en estados donde aun es legal

April 11, 2024 at 12:30 a.m.

PHOENIX — Adrienne Mansanares prevé una cascada de llamadas de pacientes de Arizona a partir de esta semana.Es presidenta y directora general de la sección de las Montañas Rocosas de Planned Parenthood,...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks to reporters at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jonathan Copper)

Arizona’s abortion ban is likely to cause a scramble for services in states where it’s still legal

April 12, 2024 at 3:25 p.m.

Adrienne Mansanares expects a flurry of calls from patients in Arizona starting this week. She's the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which has clinics that...

FILE - Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York on July 7, 2000. A study published Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in the journal Science Advances suggests that brown rats crawled off ships arriving in the Americas earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals – infuriating and disgusting generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous in North American cities that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File)

How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities

April 3, 2024 at 6:01 p.m.

Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race.New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals...

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. On Tuesday, March 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Mifepristone access is coming before the US Supreme Court. How safe is this abortion pill?

March 24, 2024 at 12:59 p.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type...

ARCHIVO - Una paciente se prepara para tomar la primera de dos píldoras, la mifepristona, para un aborto farmacológico durante una visita a una clínica de Kansas City, el 12 de octubre de 2022. (AP Foto/Charlie Riedel, Archivo)

Mas de 6 de cada 10 abortos en EEUU el ano pasado se realizaron con farmacos, segun investigacion

March 20, 2024 at 12:16 a.m.

Más de seis de cada 10 abortos en Estados Unidos el año pasado fueron realizados mediante fármacos, lo que representa un aumento del 53% respecto a lo registrado en 2020,...

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, according to research released Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that s abortion rights, said about 642,700 medication abortions took place in the first full calendar year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Medication abortion ed for 63% of abortions in the formal health care system. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

More than six in 10 US abortions in 2023 were done by medication – a significant jump since 2020

March 19, 2024 at 9:18 p.m.

More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, new research shows.The Guttmacher Institute, a research...

A room full of smaller cryo storage containers, each capable of holding approximately 150 egg samples immersed in liquid nitrogen, in one of the secured storage areas at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. Women over 35 and those facing serious diseases like cancer, lupus and sickle cell are among the most likely to turn to IVF to build the families they desperately want. But in Alabama, they are among those whose dreams are in limbo after three of the state's largest clinics paused IVF services. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

IVF gave hope to patients trying to build their families. The turmoil in Alabama put that in doubt

March 5, 2024 at 5:59 p.m.

Thirty-seven-year-old Corinn O’Brien is about two months pregnant through in vitro fertilization, but an ultrasound recently showed the fetus might be in trouble, and she wants the option to try...

Esta imagen de microscopio facilitada por los investigadores en marzo de 2024 muestra un organoide pulmonar creado a partir de células recogidas del líquido amniótico. (Giuseppe Calà, Paolo De Coppi, Mattia Gerli via AP)

Cientificos utilizan celulas de liquido amniotico para cultivar minipulmones y otros organos

March 5, 2024 at 3:39 a.m.

Los científicos han creado miniórganos a partir de células que flotan en el líquido que rodea al feto en el útero, un avance que creen que podría abrir nuevas áreas...

This microscope image provided by researchers in March 2024 shows a lung organoid created from cells collected from amniotic fluid. In a study published Monday, March 4, 2024, in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists in the United Kingdom described how they have made mini-organs from cells floating in amniotic fluid – an advance they believe could open up new areas of prenatal medicine. (Giuseppe Calà, Paolo De Coppi, Mattia Gerli via AP)

Scientists have used cells from fluid drawn during pregnancy to grow mini lungs and other organs

March 4, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.

Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb – an advance they believe could open up new areas of prenatal medicine.Miniorgans,...

Emily Hollenbeck, paciente de terapia de estimulación cerebral profunda, muestra un dispositivo EEG que registra la actividad cerebral mientras ella ve videos cortos en el "Q-Lab", el 20 de diciembre de 2023, de Mount Sinai, en Nueva York. (AP Foto/Mary Conlon)

Un marcapasos cerebral ayudo a una mujer con depresion cronica en EEUU. Podria llegar a mas personas

February 22, 2024 at 4:36 a.m.

NUEVA YORK — Emily Hollenbeck vivía con una depresión profunda y recurrente que ella comparaba con un agujero negro, donde la gravedad se sentía tan fuerte y sus tan pesados que...

El exterior del edificio de la Corte Suprema de Alabama en Montgomery, Alabama, martes 20 de febrero de 2024. (AP Foto/Kim Chandler)

Como un fallo judicial de Alabama de que los embriones congelados son ninos podria afectar la FIV

February 21, 2024 at 11:52 p.m.

La Corte Suprema de Alabama dictaminó recientemente que los embriones congelados pueden considerarse niños según la ley estatal, lo que suscita preocupación sobre cómo esta decisión podría afectar a la...

Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. Women over 35 and those facing serious diseases like cancer, lupus and sickle cell are among the most likely to turn to IVF to build the families they desperately want. But in Alabama, they are among those whose dreams are in limbo after three of the state's largest clinics paused IVF services. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

IVF is dominating headlines in Alabama and across the country. Here’s what you should know about it

March 7, 2024 at 4:48 p.m.

Alabama lawmakers and Gov. Kay Ivey agreed to protect in vitro fertilization providers from legal liability Wednesday, more than two weeks after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos...

Emily Hollenbeck, a deep brain stimulation therapy patient, demonstrates an EEG device that records brain activity as she reacts to short videos at Mount Sinai’s “Q-Lab” in New York on Dec. 20, 2023. Dr. Brian Kopell, who directs Mount Sinai's Center for Neuromodulation, says in normal brains electrical activity reverberates unimpeded in all areas, in a sort of dance. In depression, the dancers get stuck within the brain’s emotional circuitry. DBS seems to “unstick the circuit,” he says, allowing the brain to do what it normally would. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

A brain pacemaker helped a woman with crippling depression. It may soon be available to more people

February 21, 2024 at 4:57 p.m.

NEW YORK — Emily Hollenbeck lived with a deep, recurring depression she likened to a black hole, where gravity felt so strong and her limbs so heavy she could barely move. She...

Post-Roe v. Wade, more patients rely on early prenatal testing as states toughen abortion laws

February 12, 2024 at 3:57 p.m.

WASHINGTON — In Utah, more of Dr. Cara He’s maternal-fetal medicine patients are requesting early ultrasounds, hoping to detect serious problems in time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy or have...

ARCHIVO - Una paciente se prepara para tomar la primera de dos píldoras combinadas --mifepristona-- para un aborto generado por medicamentos durante una visita a una clínica, el 12 de octubre de 2022, en Kansas City, Kansas. (AP Foto/Charlie Riedel, Archivo)

Retractan 2 estudios citados en caso sobre pildora abortiva por errores y conflictos de interes

February 8, 2024 at 12:29 a.m.

Una revista médica se ha retractado de dos estudios que decían mostrar los daños provocados por la píldora abortiva mifepristona, alegando conflictos de interés de los autores y errores en...

Studies cited in case over abortion pill are retracted due to flaws and conflicts of interest

February 7, 2024 at 9:05 p.m.

A medical journal has retracted two studies claiming to show the harms of the abortion pill mifepristone, citing conflicts of interest by the authors and flaws in their research.Two of...

Elon Musk en Londres el 2 de noviembre de 2023. (Foto AP /Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

Elon Musk: Neuralink efectuo el primer implante cerebral de su dispositivo en un ser humano

January 30, 2024 at 9:40 p.m.

NUEVA YORK — Elon Musk anunció que su compañía de interfaces cerebrales Neuralink logró realizar su primer implante en un ser humano.El paciente recibió el implante el domingo y “se está recuperando...

FILE - Elon Musk appears at an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. According to Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink, but other details are scant

January 31, 2024 at 1:11 p.m.

NEW YORK — According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend.In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as...

En esta imagen de video facilitada por el Hospital Infantil de Filadelfia, un niño de 11 años que nació con sordera hereditaria se somete a una prueba de detección auditiva en Filadelfia, tras someterse a un procedimiento de terapia génica en octubre de 2023. (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia via AP)

Una terapia genica experimental permite que ninos con sordera hereditaria oigan

January 25, 2024 at 2:47 a.m.

Una terapia génica ha permitido que varios niños con sordera hereditaria oigan.Un pequeño estudio publicado el miércoles documenta la recuperación significativa del sentido del oído en cinco de los seis...

In this photo provided by researchers in January 2024, Dr. Yilai Shu examines a young patient at the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, after a gene therapy procedure for hereditary deafness. A small study published Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2024, in the journal Lancet, documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. (Courtesy Dr. Yilai Shu via AP)

Experimental gene therapy allows kids with inherited deafness to hear

January 24, 2024 at 11:31 p.m.

Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.A small study published Wednesday documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. On Tuesday,...

FILE - Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, are shown, Sept. 22, 2010, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa. Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, according to new research published Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in JAMA Internal Medicine, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to get. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions

January 2, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.

Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked...

Gautam Dongre, of the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Organizations, sits for a portrait with his daughter, Sumedha, 13, at their residence in Nagpur, India, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. Dongre recalls how his newborn son, Girish, cried constantly from stomach and leg pain. Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong and didn’t diagnose him with sickle cell for 2 1/2 years. When Sumedha was born, he and his wife had her tested immediately and learned she had the disease too. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Sickle cell affects more families in Africa and India, but new gene therapies are out of reach

December 14, 2023 at 9:24 p.m.

Gautam Dongre’s two children in India and Pascazia Mazeze’s son in Tanzania live with an inherited blood disorder that turns blood cells into instruments of pain.Now that new gene therapies...

Jillaine St.Michel en Boise, Idaho, el sábado 2 de diciembre de 2023. (AP Foto/Kyle Green)

En EEUU se alarga la espera para un aborto. Medicos temen mas riesgos.

December 9, 2023 at 6:42 p.m.

Una mujer cuyo feto tenía pocas probabilidades de sobrevivir llamó a más de una decena de clínicas de aborto antes de encontrar una que la recibiera, sólo para dejarla durante...

Jalen Matthews está en su hogar en Louisville, Kentucky, 4 de diciembre de 2023. Diagnosticada con anemia falciforme en su nacimiento, actualmente tiene 26 años. Los reguladores aprobaron el viernes 8 de diciembre de 2023 dos terapias genéticas para la anemia falciforme (o drepanocítica) con las cuales los médicos esperan curar el doloroso trastorno hereditario de la sangre que afecta principalmente a gente negra en Estados Unidos.(AP Foto/Timothy D. Easley)

Aprueban terapias geneticas para anemia falciforme en EEUU

December 8, 2023 at 8:18 p.m.

Los reguladores estadounidenses aprobaron el viernes dos terapias genéticas para la anemia falciforme (o drepanocítica) con las cuales los médicos esperan curar el doloroso trastorno hereditario de la sangre que...

Jillaine St.Michel stands for a portrait in Boise, Idaho on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. A year earlier, she learned that her previous 20-week fetus had multiple genetic and developmental problems and probably wouldn’t survive. She lives in Idaho, which has a ban on abortions, so St.Michel and her husband called about 15 out-of-state clinics, finally getting on a three-week waiting list in Denver and a two-week waiting list in Seattle. Pregnant again, she is due to give birth to a boy in January. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

It’s taking longer to schedule abortions in the US. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures

December 9, 2023 at 3:37 p.m.

A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists....

Jalen Matthews sits on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the disease led to a spinal cord stroke that left her with some paralysis in her left arm and leg. “I had to learn how to walk again, feed myself, clothe myself, basically learn how to do everything all over again,” said Matthews, who is now 26. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

FDA approves 2 gene therapies for sickle cell. One is the first to use the editing tool CRISPR

December 8, 2023 at 9:57 p.m.

Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The...

ARCHIVO - Una alumna de séptimo grado lleva su plato vegano, el cual consiste de chili con frijoles, arroz, mandarinas, tomates cereza y papitas horneadas, durante su descanso para almorzar en una escuela pública, el viernes 10 de febrero de 2023, en el distrito de Brooklyn, Nueva York. (AP Foto/Wong Maye-E, archivo)

Comer menos carne seria bueno para la Tierra. Pequenas acciones pueden modificar el comportamiento

November 22, 2023 at 8:16 p.m.

NUEVA YORK — Preston Cabral come carne casi todos los días en casa, pero sus comidas favoritas en la escuela se las sirven los “Lunes Sin Carne” y los “Viernes Veganos”. “Hoy...

Andres Voloschin, chef de Investigación y Desarrollo de la empresa Believer Meats, trabaja en platillos creados a partir de los productos de la compañía en una cocina experimental, el 13 de febrero de 2023, en Rejovot, Israel. (AP Foto/Laura Ungar)

La carne producida a partir de celulas ya esta aqui. Reemplazara algun dia a la carne tradicional?

November 20, 2023 at 11:42 p.m.

Un aroma familiar flotaba en la cocina experimental de Believer Meats este año cuando Andres Voloschin, chef de Investigación y Desarrollo, hacía girar sobre la plancha ardiendo tiras de pollo...

Nurmaa, esposa del pastor Agvaantogtokh, pastorea sus ovejas en la región Munkh-Khaan del distrito Sukhbaatar, el sábado 13 de mayo de 2023, en el sureste de Mongolia. (AP Foto/Manish Swarup)

Los pastores nomadas han criado ganado en climas duros durante milenios. Que pueden ensenarnos hoy?

November 17, 2023 at 4:48 a.m.

SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia — La media luna creciente brillaba en el cielo de Mongolia antes del amanecer mientras Agvaantogtokh y su familia comenzaban a prepararse para otro largo traslado con sus animales. A...

Technicians work with bioreactors at the Believer Meats facility in Rehovot, Israel on Feb. 13, 2023. Animal cells are placed inside bioreactors and bathed in a nutrient-rich broth where they multiply. The paste of cells is harvested and mixed with plant proteins, then pressurized and pushed out to create meat fibers. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin)

Meat made from cells, not livestock, is here. But will it ever replace traditional meat?

November 16, 2023 at 3:38 p.m.

A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and Development Chef Andres Voloschin flipped sizzling strips of chicken conjured from cells.Scientists, not farmers,...

Meat made from cells, not livestock, is here. But will it ever replace traditional meat?

November 16, 2023 at 3:34 p.m.

Nurmaa, the wife of herder Agvaantogtokh, rounds up their sheep, in the Munkh-Khaan region of the Sukhbaatar district, in southeast Mongolia, Saturday, May 13, 2023. Nurmaa, who married into this way of life, says, “Year by year I have learned a lot of things.” Herding and birthing animals. Helping set up camp. Cooking big meals of breads, stews, milk tea and homemade wine. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Pastoralists have raised livestock in harsh climates for millennia. What can they teach us today?

November 16, 2023 at 3:21 p.m.

SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia — The half-crescent moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family began preparing for yet another big move with their animals.On horseback, he rode to a...

FILE - A seventh grader carries her plate which consists of three bean chili, rice, mandarins, cherry tomatoes and baked chips during her lunch break at a public school in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Experts agree that the urgency of climate change and the demands of a surging global population call for an overhaul of how humans get their protein. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Eating less meat would be good for the Earth. Small nudges can change behavior

November 16, 2023 at 3:11 p.m.

NEW YORK — Preston Cabral eats meat nearly every day at home, but his favorite meals at school are served on “Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Fridays.”“Today I ate chips, tangerines and this...

Esta imagen de microscopio proporcionada por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de EEUU muestra glóbulos rojos de un paciente con anemia falciforme en 1972. (Dr. F. Gilbert/CDC vía AP)

FDA revisara terapia genetica para trastorno de los globulos rojos

October 27, 2023 at 7:19 p.m.

La única cura para la dolorosa enfermedad de células falciformes hoy en día es un trasplante de médula ósea. Pero pronto puede haber una nueva cura que ataque el trastorno...

FILE - This July 2019 image provided by the Sarah Cannon Research Institute shows Victoria Gray on her infusion day during a gene editing trial for sickle cell disease at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute and The Children's Hospital At TriStar Centennial in Nashville. Gray, the first patient to test the treatment, shared her experience with researchers at a scientific conference in 2023. She described suffering with terrible bouts of pain since childhood and receiving high-dose pain medications and sometimes blood transfusions. She described feeling she "was being reborn” the day she got the gene therapy. (Anthem Pictures/Sarah Cannon Research Institute via AP, File)

A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. Health advisers will review it next week

October 27, 2023 at 3:47 p.m.

The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source....

FILE - This undated image made available by the National Human Genome Research Institute shows the output from a DNA sequencer. Scientists are setting out to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry to create what they believe will be the world’s largest database of genomic information from the population. (NHGRI via AP, File)

People of African ancestry are poorly represented in genetic studies. A new effort would change that

October 18, 2023 at 2:52 p.m.

Scientists are setting out to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry to create what they believe will be the world’s largest database of genomic information from the...

El paleoartista John Gurche le implanta pelo a Shanidar 1, un neandertal masculino, el miércoles 31 de mayo de 2023 en su estudio en Trumansburg, Nueva York. (AP Foto/Heather Ainsworth)

Gracias al ADN, la ciencia halla que el Homo sapiens se mezclo con otras clases de humanos

September 25, 2023 at 3:25 p.m.

¿Qué significa ser humano?Durante largo tiempo, la respuesta parecía estar clara. Nuestra especie, Homo sapiens —con nuestros pensamientos complejos y emociones profundas— era la de los únicos humanos verdaderos en...

People walk past the faces of human ancestors as they visit the exhibits inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins, Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. More research is showing that we carry genes from other kinds of ancient humans, and their DNA affects our lives today. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy

September 27, 2023 at 3:38 p.m.

Neanderthals live on within us.These ancient human cousins, and others called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors. They mingled and had children. So some of who they...

Un grupo de bañistas mira a gente haciendo kitesurf entre las olas provocadas por la tormenta tropical Ophelia, el sábado 23 de septiembre de 2023 en Virginia Beach, Virginia. (AP Foto/John C. Clark)

Ophelia amenaza con inundaciones y fuertes lluvias en partes de EEUU

September 24, 2023 at 5:37 p.m.

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, EE.UU. — Pese a perder la fuerza de tormenta tropical, Ophelia amenazaba el domingo con inundar zonas costeras y arrojar fuertes lluvias de Washington, D.C. a la ciudad de Nueva...

Busts of Neanderthal and hominins line a table at the studio of paleoartist John Gurche in Trumansburg, N.Y., Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Along with more fossils and artifacts, DNA findings are pointing us to a challenging idea: We're not so special. For most of human history we shared the planet with other kinds of early humans — and those now-extinct groups were a lot like us. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)

Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans

September 24, 2023 at 11:58 a.m.

What does it mean to be human?For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Our species, Homo sapiens — with our complex thoughts and deep emotions — were the only...

A pair of ersby can't decide whether to approach the waters of the Potomac River as Tropical Storm Ophelia creates waves next to Wilkerson's Seafood Restaurant along McKinney Boulevard in Colonial Beach, Va., on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (Peter Cihelka/The Free Lance-Star via AP)

Weakening Ophelia still poses a risk of coastal flooding and heavy rain in some parts of the US

September 24, 2023 at 9:29 p.m.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Nearly a day after being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia still threatened parts of the Northeast on Sunday with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington...

Alisha Alderson who is due to give birth in September, sits in the living room of her house in Baker City, Ore., on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Because of the closing of Baker City's only obstetrical unit, the Anderson family is traveling to the Boise, Idaho area, a little over 100 miles away, to give birth. Alisha will be spending time with family in Kuna, Idaho for 3 weeks until she gives birth or is induced the third week of September. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home

September 17, 2023 at 2:08 p.m.

Alisha Alderson placed her folded clothes and everything she needed for the last month of her pregnancy in various suitcases. She never imagined she would have to leave the comfort...

Brynn Schulte rides on a toy unicorn at her home in Cincinnati shortly before getting medication to treat her rare genetic bleeding disorder, Aug. 3, 2023. Brynn was diagnosed thanks to whole genome testing, which was recently shown to be nearly twice as good at finding genetic disorders in sick babies as more targeted tests. Her parents and doctors credit early diagnosis with saving her life. (AP Photo/Laura Ungar)

A broad genetic test saved one newborn’s life. Research suggests it could help millions of others

September 4, 2023 at 11:21 p.m.

CINCINNATI — Brynn Schulte nearly died twice when she was a baby, at one point needing emergency surgery for massive bleeding in her brain.No one knew what was wrong until a test...

Phil Durst, who has undergone an experimental stem cell procedure with his eyes, sits for a portrait in Homewood, Ala., on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. His left eye bore the brunt of a 2017 work accident, which stole his vision, left him unable to tolerate light and triggered four to five cluster headaches a day. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Stem cells from one eye show promise in healing injuries in the other

August 18, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.

Phil Durst recalled clawing at his face after a chemical from a commercial dishwashing machine squirted into his eyes, causing “the most indescribable pain I’ve ever felt — ever, ever,...

Dr. Alfonso Sabater, checks Antonio Vento Carvajal's eye under a blue light after applying a stain to check to see if more ulcers had developed, before a gene therapy treatment, Thursday, July 6, 2023, at University of Miami Health System's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. Antonio was born with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic condition that causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes. He was blind for much of his life but can see again after getting gene therapy eyedrops. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions

July 24, 2023 at 11:32 a.m.

MIAMI — Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops,...

Ansonia Lyons lleva a su hijo, Adrien Lyons, a cambiarle el pañal, el sábado 5 de febrero de 2022, en Birmingham, Alabama. (AP Foto/Wong Maye-E, archivo)

Estudio: La mortalidad materna se duplico con creces en EEUU en un periodo de 20 anos

July 4, 2023 at 12:32 a.m.

La mortalidad materna se duplicó con creces en todo Estados Unidos a lo largo de dos décadas, y la tragedia afectó a las madres de manera desigual.Las de raza negra...

FILE - Ansonia Lyons carries her son, Adrien Lyons, as she takes him for a diaper change in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. After two miscarriages, Ansonia became pregnant in 2020, and it was difficult. Doctors initially told her she was suffering from regular morning sickness, though she was vomiting blood. Ultimately, she was diagnosed with an excessive vomiting disorder. A study published Monday, July 3, 2023, in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows maternal mortality rates in the U.S. doubled between 1999 and 2019, that Native American and Alaskan Native populations had the largest rate increase and that, overall, Black maternal mortality rates were the highest. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate

July 3, 2023 at 9:58 p.m.

Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases...

This graphic provided by Yale University shows an image of a human embryo model. (Monique Pedroza, Ipek Gassaloglu, Berna Sozen/Yale University via AP)

Scientists use stem cells to create models of human embryos and study our earliest days

June 27, 2023 at 4:10 p.m.

Scientists have created embryo models to help study the mysteries of early human development, the medical problems that happen before birth and why many pregnancies fail.These models are made from...

OB/GYN Dr. Alecia Fields stands for a portrait in her home in rural Kentucky on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Fields, who has been an advocate for reproductive rights, said the overturning of Roe v. Wade leak brought up “a lot of fears” and made her wonder: “What is this going to mean on the ground? Am I going to be criminalized?” (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Why some doctors stay in US states with restrictive abortion laws and others leave

June 23, 2023 at 11:55 a.m.

Dr. Kylie Cooper chokes up thinking about the patients she left behind in Idaho.One who often comes to mind is Kayla Smith.Smith said she chose to end a desperately wanted...

Chef Zach Tyndall prepares Good Meat's cultivated chicken at the Eat Just office in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The U.S. government is allowing the sale of chicken made from animal cells. California companies Upside Foods and Good Meat were granted permission on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 to sell their products by the Agriculture Department. Proponents say this “cultivated meat” is better for animals and the environment because livestock doesn’t need to be raised and killed to produce it. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Meat grown from animal cells? Here’s what it is and how it’s made

June 21, 2023 at 5:57 p.m.

The U.S. government is allowing the sale of chicken made from animal cells.California companies Upside Foods and Good Meat were granted permission on Wednesday to sell their products by the...

Plato de pollo cultivado de Good Meat en la oficina Eat Just en Alameda, California, 14 de junio de 2023. El Departamento de Agricultura dio su aprobación final el miércoles 21 de junio de 2023 a las firmas Upside Foods y Good Meat para que vendan los productos conocidos como carne "cultivada en el laboratorio" o simplemente "cultivada". (AP Foto/Jeff Chiu)

EEUU aprueba venta de “carne cultivada” de pollo

June 21, 2023 at 5:12 p.m.

Por primera vez, los reguladores estadounidenses aprobaron el miércoles la venta de pollo hecho de células animales, permitiendo a dos empresas de California ofrecer carne “cultivada en el laboratorio” a...

A prepared dish of Good Meat's cultivated chicken is shown at the Eat Just office in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The Agriculture Department issued final approvals Wednesday, June 21 to California firms Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell the products, known as “lab grown” or “cultivated” meat. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation’s first ‘lab-grown’ meat

June 22, 2023 at 1:22 a.m.

For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation's restaurant tables...

FILE - A screen displays a patient's vital signs at a hospital in Baltimore on Nov. 28, 2016. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday, June 16, 2023, suggests testosterone replacement therapy is safe for men with “low T” who have cardiovascular disease or are at high risk for it. But doctors say men shouldn’t view the treatment as an “anti-aging tonic.” (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Popular ‘low T’ treatment is safe for men with heart disease, but doctors warn it’s no youth serum

June 16, 2023 at 3:33 p.m.

Testosterone replacement therapy is safe for men with “low T” who have heart disease or are at high risk for it, a new study suggests. But doctors warn the popular...

FILE - This undated photo shows Terry Horgan of Montour Falls, N.Y. Horgan, 27, the lone volunteer in a gene-editing study targeting a rare form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, likely died after having a reaction to the virus that delivered the therapy in his body, researchers concluded in an early study released in May 2023. (Kate Collins/The Journal via AP, File)

Researchers link death in gene-editing study to a virus used to deliver the treatment, not CRISPR

May 31, 2023 at 9:41 p.m.

The lone volunteer in a gene-editing study targeting a rare form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy likely died after having a reaction to the virus that delivered the therapy in his...

ARCHIVO - Elon Musk sale del edificio federal Phillip Burton en San Francisco, el martes 24 de enero de 2023. (AP Foto/ Benjamin Fanjoy, Archivo)

Neuralink, de Musk, dice que obtuvo la aprobacion de EEUU para probar dispositivo en personas

May 27, 2023 at 1:37 a.m.

La empresa de implantes cerebrales de Elon Musk, Neuralink, anunció que obtuvo permiso de los reguladores estadounidenses para empezar a probar su dispositivo en personas.La empresa hizo el anuncio en...

FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it’s gotten permission to begin testing its device in people. The company made the announcement on Twitter Thursday, May 25, but has provided no details about a potential trial, which was not listed on the U.S. government database of trials. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people

May 26, 2023 at 5:58 p.m.

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it's gotten permission from U.S. regulators to begin testing its device in people.The company made the announcement on Twitter Thursday evening but has...

FILE - This undated image made available by the National Human Genome Research Institute shows the output from a DNA sequencer. The much-heralded Human Genome Project was a huge milestone for science, but most of that genetic blueprint came from one man from Buffalo, N.Y. On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, scientists announced they have sequenced the genomes of 47 people from around the world, allowing scientists to be able to look at what's normal and what's not across people and learn more about what genes do and what diseases genetic problems may cause. (NHGRI via AP, File)

DNA project gives scientists diverse genome for comparison

May 10, 2023 at 4:01 p.m.

For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person’s full set of DNA they study to a template that relies mostly on genetic material from one man affectionately known as...

Jillian Philips sits with her children Macy, 10, and 4-year old twins, Emmett and Jude, right, in their home, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in North Brookfield, Mass. Macy holds a teddy bear that houses a silver heart-shaped urn with some of the ashes of her deceased sister, Emilia, who died at 5 days old in 2015. Philips, who used the drug Mifepristone to manage her miscarriage, is concerned that other women who miscarry could suffer if the pill, also used for abortions, is taken off the market. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)

Abortion pill legal challenge threatens miscarriage care

May 6, 2023 at 2:37 p.m.

Less than a year after losing her daughter Emilia at five days old, Jillian Phillips suffered a miscarriage.It was Halloween weekend in 2016, and her doctor said she could wait...

FILE - Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. As a part of the Zoonomia Project, with 11 papers published Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the journal Science, by comparing Balto’s genes to those of other dogs, researchers found he was more genetically diverse than modern breeds and may have carried genetic variants that helped him survive harsh conditions. The Zoonomia Project is an international effort comparing the genetic blueprints of an array of animals, including this species, and some of the discoveries were shared in 11 papers published Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the journal Science. (AP Photo, File)

Zoonomia: Genetic research reveals all we share with animals

April 27, 2023 at 6:05 p.m.

By comparing the genetic blueprints of an array of animals, scientists are gaining new insights into our own species and all we share with other creatures.One of the most striking...

With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a protester holds a sign in of mifepristone as they march past the capitol following a Planned Parenthood rally in of abortion access outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, April. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

What Supreme Court action on abortion means for patients

April 21, 2023 at 11:23 p.m.

The Supreme Court's action Friday regarding a key drug used in medication abortions may leave many women wondering: What does this mean for me?On Friday, the court preserved access to...

FILE - Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 22, 2010. A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Abortion providers scramble as courts restrict pills

April 13, 2023 at 11:09 p.m.

Doctors, clinics and telehealth providers across the country are scrambling to figure out how they will continue to provide the most common type of abortion after a federal appeals court...

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two pills for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. Some abortion clinics are fielding lots of calls from patients since a Friday, April 7, 2023 court ruling threatened the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion, mifepristone. Patients are concerned about whether they can still get the care they need. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Abortion clinics reassure worried patients, set backup plans

April 12, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

Since a court ruling threatened the availability of a key drug used in medication abortion, calls have been pouring in to the clinics Adrienne Mansanares oversees.Patients from near and far...

Esta foto proporcionada por el científico Katsuhiko Hayashi muestra ratones nacidos a partir de células madre, cuatro semanas después de nacer, en septiembre de 2021, en Osaka, Japón. (Katsuhiko Hayashi vía AP)

Cientificos crean por 1ra vez ratones a partir de 2 machos

March 18, 2023 at 1:46 a.m.

Por primera vez, los científicos han creado crías de ratón a partir de dos machos.Si bien esto genera la remota posibilidad de usar la misma técnica para personas, los expertos...

Cientificos crean por 1ra vez ratones a partir de dos machos

March 16, 2023 at 3:27 a.m.

Por primera vez, los científicos han creado crías de ratón a partir de dos machos.Esto aumenta la posibilidad distante de usar la misma técnica en el ser humano, aunque los...

This photo provided by researcher Katsuhiko Hayashi shows mice derived from stem cells, four weeks after their birth, in Osaka, Japan in September 2021. In a study published Wednesday, March 16, 2023, in the journal Nature, scientists led by Hayashi have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. (Katsuhiko Hayashi via AP)

Scientists create mice with cells from 2 males for 1st time

March 17, 2023 at 4:51 p.m.

For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males.This raises the distant possibility of using the same technique for people – although experts caution that very few...

La foto tomada por Timothy Mousseau muestra perros en la zona de Chernobyl, Ucrania, 3 de octubre de 2022. A 35 años del accidente nuclear más grave del mundo, los perros de Chernobyl vagan entre los edificios abandonados en y alrededor de la usina clausurada. De alguna manera han encontrado la manera de alimentarse, reproducirse y sobrevivir. (Timothy Mousseau via AP)

Perros de Chernobil ensenan sus recursos para sobrevivir

March 5, 2023 at 6:15 a.m.

Más de 35 años después del accidente nuclear más grave del mundo, los perros de Chernóbil vagan entre los edificios abandonados en y alrededor de la usina clausurada. De alguna...

This photo taken by Timothy Mousseau shows dogs in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine on Oct. 3, 2022. More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and survive.(Timothy Mousseau via AP)

Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

March 3, 2023 at 9:11 p.m.

More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to...

Archivo - El científico chino He Jiankui habla durante una breve conferencia de prensa en Beijing el 21 de febrero de 2023. (AP Foto/Mark Schiefelbein, Archivo)

Complicado retorno para quien modifico bebes geneticamente

February 28, 2023 at 11:50 p.m.

Hace cinco años, el científico He Jiankui impactó a sus pares y al mundo al afirmar que creó los primeros bebés modificados genéticamente. Ahora, después de pasar tres años en...

ARCHIVO - Esta imagen de microscopio de 2020 proporcionada por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos muestra partículas del virus SARS-CoV-2, que causan el COVID-19. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP, Archivo)

Origen del COVID-19 sigue siendo un misterio

February 28, 2023 at 4:50 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Una pregunta clave ha eludido a los gobiernos y agencias de salud de distintas partes del mundo desde que empezó la pandemia de COVID-19: ¿El virus se originó en animales...

FILE - Chinese scientist He Jiankui arrives to speak at a brief press conference in Beijing on Feb. 21, 2023. He, a Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world's first genetically edited babies, said that he hopes to research rare hereditary diseases in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

For man behind gene-edited babies, a rocky return to science

February 28, 2023 at 5:01 a.m.

Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked his peers and the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies. Now, after serving three years in a Chinese...

FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19. A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? Now, the U.S. Department of Energy has assessed with “low confidence” that it began with a lab leak although others in the U.S. intelligence community disagree. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP, File)

Coronavirus origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic

February 28, 2023 at 4:52 a.m.

WASHINGTON — A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies around the world since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?Now, the...

April Matson stands for a portrait in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. A few months after South Dakota banned abortion in 2022, Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to get the procedure. The trip brought back difficult memories of Matson’s own abortion at the same clinic in 2016. The former grocery store worker and parent of two couldn’t afford a hotel and slept in a tent near a horse pasture — bleeding and in pain. (AP Photo/Josh Jurgens)

Post-Roe, Native Americans face even more abortion hurdles

February 14, 2023 at 7:03 p.m.

A few months after South Dakota banned abortion last year, April Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to get the procedure.The trip...

Rylae-Ann Poulin, una niña que se benefició de una terapia genética que es inyectada directamente al cerebro, posa en Bangkok, Tailandia, el 14 de enero de 2023. (AP Foto/Sakchai Lalit)

Prometedora genoterapia se inyecta directamente al cerebro

January 24, 2023 at 5:58 p.m.

Cuando Rylae-Ann Poulin tenía un año, no gateaba ni balbuceaba como otros niños de su edad. Un trastorno genético raro le impedía incluso levantar la cabeza. Sus padres tomaban turnos...

Rylae-Ann Poulin smiles as she learns to ride a horse in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Rylae-Ann was among the first to benefit from a new way of delivering gene therapy _ directly into the brain _ that experts believe holds great promise for treating a host of brain disorders. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Promising gene therapy delivers treatment directly to brain

January 24, 2023 at 5:03 p.m.

When Rylae-Ann Poulin was a year old, she didn’t crawl or babble like other kids her age. A rare genetic disorder kept her from even lifting her head. Her parents...

Shubham Chandra, center, returning home to New York from Cancun, Mexico, takes an anonymous COVID tests for study purposes after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Chandra knows how dangerous the coronavirus can be: He lost his father during the pandemic. So when he cleared customs and saw people offering anonymous COVID-19 testing, he was happy to volunteer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

As COVID surges in China, US begins testing more travelers

January 5, 2023 at 7:17 p.m.

NEWARK, N.J. — Shubham Chandra knows how dangerous the coronavirus can be: He lost his dad during the pandemic. So when he cleared customs at Newark Liberty International Airport and saw people...

Varios familiares rodean la cama de un enfermo con COVID-19 en la zona de urgencias del Hospital Popular Langfang No. 4 en la ciudad de Bazhou, en el norte de China, el jueves 22 de diciembre de 2022. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Podria surgir una nueva variante de COVID en China?

December 26, 2022 at 4:13 a.m.

¿Podrá el aumento del COVID-19 en China causar el surgimiento de una variante del virus? Los científicos no están seguros, pero les preocupa la posibilidad. Sería similar a la variante...

FILE - Masked commuters walk through a walkway in between two subway stations as they head to work during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. China continues to adapt to an easing of strict virus containment regulations. About three years ago, the original version of the coronavirus spread from China to the rest of the world and was eventually replaced by the delta variant, then omicron and its descendants, which continue plaguing the world today. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus mutant

December 25, 2022 at 12:12 p.m.

Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world?Scientists don’t know but worry that might happen. It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there...

Tina Sandri, directora general de la casa para ancianos Forest Hills de DC, hace una prueba de coronavirus, el jueves 8 de diciembre de 2022, en Washington. (AP Foto/Nathan Howard)

EEUU: Aumentan hospitalizaciones por COVID-19

December 11, 2022 at 9:18 p.m.

Las hospitalizaciones relacionadas con el coronavirus están volviendo a subir en Estados Unidos, donde las personas de edad avanzada representan una proporción cada vez mayor de las muertes y menos...

Tina Sandri, CEO of Forest Hills of DC senior living facility, es a COVID-19 informational sign while walking to her office on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in Washington. Coronavirus-related hospital issions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Hospitalizations signal rising COVID-19 risk for US seniors

December 11, 2022 at 5:26 p.m.

Coronavirus-related hospital issions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date...

En esta imagen del 22 de marzo de 2022, el director general de Tesla, Elon Musk, acude a la inauguración de la fábrica de Tesla Berlin Brandenburg, en Gruenheide, Alemania. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, Archivo)

Neuralink espera probar pronto implante neuronal en personas

December 2, 2022 at 2:47 a.m.

El multimillonario Elon Musk anunció que su compañía Neuralink pretende conseguir autorización para probar pronto su implante cerebral en personas.En una presentación gráfica transmitida en vivo la noche del miércoles,...

FILE - Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, , March 22, 2022. Musk said during a presentation Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2022, that his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people soon. Musk’s Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking brains to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Musk’s company aims to soon test brain implant in people

December 2, 2022 at 12:53 a.m.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said his Neuralink company is seeking permission to test its brain implant in people soon.In a “show and tell” presentation livestreamed Wednesday night, Musk said his...

Carey Johnson y su hijo Fabian Swain posan para una fotografía el lunes 14 de noviembre de 2022 en su casa en Germantown, Maryland. Ambos se recuperaron de infecciones de COVID-19. (AP foto/Carolyn Kaster)

Tras un ano, omicron sigue suscitando oleadas de COVID

November 26, 2022 at 6:11 a.m.

Un año después de que la variante ómicron comenzó su ataque contra la humanidad, la mutación siempre cambiante del coronavirus hizo incrementar los casos de COVID-19 en muchos sitios en...

Carey Johnson and her son Fabian Swain are photographed wearing face masks in their Germantown, Md., home on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Both Carey and Fabian have recovered from COVID. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

After a year, omicron still driving COVID surges and worries

November 25, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.

A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing coronavirus mutant drove COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a...

Dr. Kristina Tocce stands for a portrait in the Planned Parenthood offices in east Denver on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Tocce said she recently treated a Texas woman whose cancer had gone into remission but came back aggressively after she became pregnant with her second child. She sought an abortion to resume the cancer treatment that promised to keep her alive for her toddler. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Despite dangerous pregnancy complications, abortions denied

November 20, 2022 at 1:43 p.m.

Weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dr. Grace Ferguson treated a woman whose water had broken halfway through pregnancy. The baby would never survive, and the patient’s chance of...

This undated photo shows Terry Horgan with his parents in the family's Montour Falls, N.Y., home. Horgan, a 27-year-old who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died last month, Oct. 2022, according to Cure Rare Disease, a Connecticut-based nonprofit founded by his brother, Rich, to try and save him. Although it’s still unclear what killed him, his death is raising questions about the experiment and the overall prospect of what one ethicist calls designer genetic therapies. (Kate Collins/The Journal via AP)

Death in US gene therapy study sparks search for answers

November 4, 2022 at 11:42 p.m.

The lone volunteer in a unique study involving a gene-editing technique has died, and those behind the trial are now trying to figure out what killed him.Terry Horgan, a 27-year-old...

Mylissa Farmer talks with the News-Leader on Sept. 28, 2022, at her home in Joplin, Mo. In early August, Farmer had to travel to Illinois to terminate her pregnancy when her water broke at 17 weeks and 5 days and put her life in danger. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP)

Missouri investigates hospital denial of emergency abortion

October 31, 2022 at 10:23 p.m.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's health department is investigating whether a hospital violated federal health care rules in denying a woman an emergency abortion, an agency spokeswoman confirmed Monday. Missouri Health and...

Dante Murry, left, and his wife, Chastity Murry, in their home in Elizabethtown, Ky., Thursday, July 7, 2022. Scientists at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT identified a particular gene called AKAP11 that's strongly linked to mental disorders, and the Murrys, who both have the disorder depend upon one another to deal with it day-to-day. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Genes link bipolar, schizophrenia, once thought unrelated

October 22, 2022 at 1:06 p.m.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — When Chastity Murry had her first psychotic break, she went into her bathroom and downed a whole bottle of pills, hoping to die. Her teenage daughter had to perform...

This photo courtesy of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), provided in October 2022, shows excavation of the East Smithfield plague pits in London, which were used for mass burials in 1348 and 1349. According to a study published Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, in the journal Nature, our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today - a prime example of the way germs shape us over time. (MOLA via AP)

Genetic twist: Medieval plague may have molded our immunity

October 19, 2022 at 3:04 p.m.

Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today.It's a prime example...

Esta imagen microscópica provista por Pasca Lab/Stanford Medicine muestra un astrocito humano, centro amarillo, y células gliales humanas (azul) dentro del cerebro de una rata. (Pasca Lab/Stanford Medicine via AP)

Investigadores cultivan celulas cerebrales humanas en ratas

October 12, 2022 at 4:15 p.m.

Científicos han trasplantado células cerebrales humanas a los cerebros de ratas jóvenes, donde crecieron y formaron conexiones. Es parte de un estudio sobre el desarrollo del cerebro humano y las...

This microscope image provided by Pasca Lab/Stanford Medicine shows a human astrocyte cell, center in yellow, and human glial cells (scattered in blue) inside the brain of a rat. (Pasca Lab/Stanford Medicine via AP)

Scientists grow human brain cells in rats to study diseases

October 12, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.It's part of an effort to better study human brain development and...

En esta imagen proporcionada por Max-Planck-Gesellschaft se ve al científico sueco Svante Pääbo en Leipzig, Alemania, el 27 de abril de 2010. (Frank Vinken for Max-Planck-Gesellschaft via AP)

Nobel de Medicina premia hallazgos sobre la evolucion humana

October 4, 2022 at 1:16 a.m.

ESTOCOLMO, Suecia — El científico sueco Svante Paabo ganó el lunes el premio Nobel de Medicina por sus descubrimientos sobre la evolución humana, los cuales desbloquearon los secretos del ADN neandertal que...

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo stands by a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, , Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Swedish scientist Svante Paabo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on human evolution. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA

October 3, 2022 at 1:28 p.m.

STOCKHOLM — Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique...

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