A pro ’til the very end, Jim Keltner still talks about his home neighbourhood of Los Feliz in terms of its proximity to his place of work for the last six decades. “It’s basically three or four ...

There’s nothing like an old-school drum solo. And this one is solid gold.

Ninety years ago, Benny Goodman, a white clarinetist and bandleader, breached American society’s entrenched color line like a clarinet’s high note piercing a fog of static. By revealing the racially ...

In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

In May, Ra’eese Aleem will fight Angelo Leo for the International Boxing Featherweight Title. The chance at a world title has been a long, arduous climb for Aleem, whose career began in West Michigan ...

A pioneering gene therapy could help treat a rare seizure disorder called Dravet syndrome, according to new clinical trial results. The drug, called zorevunersen, holds promise, especially for people ...

Dustin Vidrine's sight is disappearing — shrinking, really. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited eye disease that runs in his family. By the time he was in his 20s, he noticed that his ...

A first-of-its-kind inhalable gene therapy for lung cancer that genetically modifies people’s lung cells has been fast-tracked towards potential approval after promising clinical trial results. “Very ...

Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers found that up to nine in ten cases could be linked to the APOE gene — even ...

In 2018, a nervous-looking He Jiankui took the stage at a scientific conference in Hong Kong. A hush settled over the packed auditorium as the soft-spoken Chinese scientist adjusted his microphone and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A patient in a late-stage gene editing trial for a rare heart condition died from fatal liver complications after receiving an ...

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