How Designer DNA Is Changing Medicine

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July 19, 2021

Medicine How Designer DNA Is Changing Medicine A genomic revolution is poised to cure sickle cell and other genetic diseases By Carolyn Barber

Space Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin Are Finally Flying to Space After nearly twenty years pursuing a lifelong dream of spaceflight, the world's wealthiest person is at last ready for lift off By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Behavior & Society How to Raise Kids Who Don't Grow Up to Be Jerks (or Worse) A new book gives science-based advice for parenting kids to be generous, kind antiracists By Clara Moskowitz

Climate Space Has Better Internet than Antarctica, But that Might Change A proposed fiber optic cable could make it easier for scientists to transmit crucial climate data By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Climate Thawing Permafrost Is Artificially Chilled to Stabilize Alaska Oil Pipeline Damage to support structures raises the threat of an oil spill in a delicate ecosystem that would be difficult to clean up By David Hasemyer,Inside Climate News

Engineering Concrete Buildings Could Be Turned into Rechargeable Batteries But for now, a square meter of the building material holds roughly the energy of two AA batteries By Sophie Bushwick

Biology The Idea That Trees Talk to Cooperate Is Misleading It's a romantic notion, but pretending they're like humans could actually harm the cause of conservation By Kathryn Flinn

Conservation To Save Bats and Their Habitats, We Must Protect the Land Rights of Indigenous People In the Brazilian Amazon, as in many parts of the world, those who live on the land are best positioned to protect its biodiversity By Natalia Mesa

Public Health COVID Risks at the Tokyo Olympics Aren't Being Managed, Experts Say Current prevention measures may not be enough to prevent an outbreak By Maddie Bender

Arts & Culture Poem: 'Lesson from the West African Lungfish (Protopterus annectens)' Science in meter and verse By Christina Olson

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Health & Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 4

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Turning DNA into Drugs Life's master molecule has been transformed into therapies that tackle the roots of human illness | March 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Imagine you have a car with a flat tire. Gene therapy is taking a fifth wheel and putting it somewhere on the car and hoping it runs. Gene editing is repairing the flat." Fyodor Urnov, gene editing expert at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Innovative Genomics Institute

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