LAURA UNGAR

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Genetic medicine can leave people with rare mutations behind. But there’s new hope

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering arduous and exhausting.She has the most common fatal genetic disease in the...

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time.Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those...

LAURA UNGAR

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