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Anchor lead: People with diabetes visit the emergency department a lot, Elizabeth Tracey reports Diabetes tops the list for medical conditions among older frequent users of emergency departments, a recent national study revealed. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns …
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Anchor lead: How should the recently reported CRISPR twins be followed? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine being one of the CRISPR twins, the two babies reportedly born recently with modifications to their DNA made using CRISPR technology. The whole world is …
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Anchor lead: Is the current state of mitochondrial replacement therapy a model for where CRISPR may go? Elizabeth Tracey reports Editing embryos using the technique known as CRISPR has reportedly resulted in the birth of twins, with changes in their …
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Anchor lead: What is the best response to gene-edited babies being born? Elizabeth Tracey reports The announcement that so-called gene edited babies, twins, had been born took the world by storm recently, and unleased a furor of reaction. Jeffrey Kahn, …
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Anchor lead: A genetic assay can help many with early breast cancer avoid chemotherapy, Elizabeth Tracey reports A widely available 21-gene assay can help women with so-called intermediate risk breast cancer avoid chemotherapy and simply stick to endocrine therapy, a …
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Anchor lead: What makes certain bacteria associated with obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports Fat mice led David Hackam, director of pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins, on a mission to find out why one group became obese while others on the same …
