Kendall K. Morgan
issue 13

CRISPR Comes to the Clinic

With advances in gene-editing tools, more diseases could get the ax.

By Kendall K. Morgan
Treatment

Defying the Data

By Sonya Collins

In the winter of 2005, Terri Ellsworth arrived at her son Billy’s preschool in a Pittsburgh suburb for her first parent-teacher conference. She was eager…

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Book Review

The Pied Piper

By Kevin Davies

Twenty-five years ago I opened the newest issue of Science magazine and almost fell off my chair. A little-known scientist named Craig Venter had published…
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Q&A

Q&A with Heidi Rehm

By Misha Angrist

How did your 14-year-old daughter come to explore her own exome, that is, the sequence of all of her 22,000-plus genes, as a science project…
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Q&A

Outsmarting Colon Cancer

By Jeanne Erdmann

Jose Landa was looking for a change. He and his wife came to the U.S. from their home in Venezuela in 2001 because they wanted…

Research

A Shot Against Cancer?

By Kendall K. Morgan

If Cheryl Reinhart hadn’t been in the habit of sleeping on her stomach, she’s pretty sure she never would have noticed the grapefruit-size lump growing…

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Genetics

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Drug Approved

By Charlotte Huff

Scott Monnin and his wife, Nora, stalled for five months after the birth of their second daughter in 2013 before testing her for spinal muscular…
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Research

Road to Recovery

By Sonya Collins

In 1998, Rose Palinkas was finally clean. Using heroin recreationally as a twentysomething in the 1980s had spiraled into a lifelong addiction. It cost her…
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