Every flu season, one (or several) of my editors asks me what the latest flu news is and if I have any “fresh takes” to offer. One year, while on staff at Newsweek, I casually mentioned that 1) I used to work in a vaccine factory, and 2) I had never actually gotten a flu shot myself. … Continue reading The Vaccine Factory
Kim Tingley has a great cover story in the New York Times Magazine this week, on the slow crawl of mitochondrial gene transfer toward human trials. She does a good job of unpacking the science, and an even better job of probing the roots of our uneasiness with this prospective new therapy. The procedure involves … Continue reading On catch phrases and scientific controversy
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