Because we are in the business of preventing bad things from happening, it has been argued that public health succeeds when it is invisible. As a result, there is no such thing as a public health face. We see the face of the individual who got food poisoning, but we don’t see the faces of…
More than 40 million people rely on the water reserves stored by Lake Powell and Lake Mead, two of the biggest reservoirs in the United States, both of which are located along the Colorado River. Water levels in each of these bodies have hit historic lows as the American West continues to suffer from severe…
CRISPR, the gene-editing technique that allows scientists to change DNA with remarkable ease, was discovered almost a decade ago by a couple of biologists. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier received the Nobel Prize for Physics last year for their work. Scientists all across the world have been looking at how the technique may be utilized…