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Sickle cell disease: Gene therapy advances, but access and interest gaps persist Financial challenges continue to limit access to treatment for patients with sickle cell disease even as high-tech treatments are advancing rapidly, a researcher at St. Jude Childr...

We are not yet done with COVID-19’s origin, journalists say About 70% of the world’s population has been vaccinated with at least a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. But nearly three years after the start of the pandemic, a fundamental conc...

2-D materials usher in a renaissance of high-tech innovations The future of medicine, computing, and energy optimization lies in two-dimensional materials, engineer Deji Akinwande told an audience of science writers gathered for a conference ...

The Mid-South’s roadmap to a clean energy future Many cities in the Mid-South region of the United States have pledged to switch completely to renewable power on an ambitious timeline, but there’s a lot standing in their way. �...

First came gene therapy. Now: transcription therapy Twenty years ago, when Aseem Ansari became engrossed in transcription therapy—using synthetic molecules to counteract the result of a malfunctioning gene circuit—he was met wit...

Optimizing immune response may improve cancer treatments Many patients undergoing cancer treatments have a problem that keeps their immune systems up at night: finding the cancer cell that got away. It’s a diabolical needle in the hays...

Russian aggression leaves Arctic science at risk Olga Shpak used to study whales in the Arctic Ocean. Now, she volunteers on the front lines of a war to defend her hometown of Kharkiv from Russian attacks. “My life has changed ...

Finding high stakes and big stories in the lives of lowly critters Consider the sea cucumber. That was author David Quammen’s (@DavidQuammen) request to the audience at a recent ScienceWriters conference in Memphis, Tenn. There was an irony to t...

A critical reflection on media coverage of SARS-CoV-2’s origin The opening session of CASW’s 2022 New Horizons in Science briefings, “Science + Science Writing: A critical reflection on media coverage of SARS-CoV-2’s origin,&...

SHERF fellows announced for 2022-23 Twelve journalists have been selected for the 2022-23 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships (SHERF), a collaboration of CASW, the Association of Health Care Jo...

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