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Mapping the Brain’s Sense of What Goes On Inside the Body

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By:Carl Zimmer
25 November 2025 at 11:33
Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders.

© Mirko Ilić

New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases

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By:Pam Belluck and Carl Zimmer
19 November 2025 at 11:00
Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases.

Β© Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images

David R. Liu, a biologist at the Broad Institute and Harvard, is the lead author of a new study of a gene-editing strategy that could be standardized for multiple people with rare diseases.

The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

βœ‡NYT: Science
By:Carl Zimmer
8 November 2025 at 09:58
β€œThe laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself.

Β© Science Source

The x-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin in 1952 that assisted James Watson and Francis Crick in their discovery of the structure of DNA.

What Scientists Are Learning From Brain Organoids

βœ‡NYT: Science
By:Carl Zimmer
6 November 2025 at 14:00
Lab-grown β€œreductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom.

Β© Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times

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