Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that.
A glitch in the mechanical process that drives normal turnover of epithelial cells lining the lungs could be to blame, researchers report in the April 5 Science. Better understanding of this physical force underpinning chronic asthma attacks might lead to new ways of combating the disease.
Michael Adams was 16 when, after being thrown from his car in a devastating accident, he fractured his skull in three places.
The film producer from New York fell into a coma for two weeks, and woke up a shadow of his former bright, fun-loving self.
For the following decade, he had trouble speaking, making friends and completing the simplest of daily tasks due to extensive nerve damage to his brain.
Until, that is, he happened across what is perhaps
U.S. patients with sickle cell disease now have a novel treatment option: the first-ever CRISPR-based therapy.
On December 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the gene-editing therapy for use in patients age 12 years and older. In addition to offering hope of relief for people with severe forms of the painful blood disorder, the treatment, called Casgevy, is the world’s first to genetically tweak cells using the Nobel Prize–winning molecular scissors CRISPR/Cas9 (SN: 10/7/20).
Mother of Baby A (murdered on June 8, 2015) and B (victim of attempted murder between June 8 and June 11, 2015)
The mother of Baby A and Baby B said in a statement read to the court that 2015 ‘was going to be the best year of our lives’ and ‘everything was perfect’.
‘We never got to hold our little boy while he was alive, because you took him away,’ the statement says.
‘What should have been the happiest
A kidnapped woman miraculously escaped a cinderblock cell in Oregon by breaking the door down and bloodying her hands where she was chained up and sexually assaulted.
The suspect, 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi, who posed as an undercover cop and has been linked to violent attacks in at least four other states, was arrested by police in Reno, Nevada.
The FBI released photos of the makeshift cinderblock cell in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on Tuesday, where the victim was confined before her
A Michigan teacher is accused of smuggling drugs, a cell phone for phone sex and money to inmates under the guise of working as a jail educator, officials said Friday.
Meredith Leyrer, 54, was arrested on Monday and faces charges of manufacturing and delivering narcotics, bringing contraband into a correctional facility and bringing a phone into a correctional facility, all felonies, Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson said in a video posted to the department’s Facebook page on Friday.
Leyrer began
When you are on a cruise, at the beach, in the mountains, or even driving through a different area, you may expect a poor cellphone signal. However, when you’re in your own home, and calls start dropping, it’s unacceptable and downright frustrating.
Even worse is, let’s say you’re at home and have an emergency, your Wi-Fi is out. Panic sets in as you reach for your cell phone to call for help, only to realize there is no signal. You
A visitor at Ohio’s Cedar Point was injured Saturday after a cell phone hit his head while riding a roller coaster.
David Carter said on Facebook that he was riding Cedar Point’s Maverick roller coaster with another guest who took their cell phone on the ride. Carter said that the cell phone flew out of a pocket from a passenger three rows in front of him, striking him in the head.
As a result, Carter said that the injury left
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