Spotlighting stress: a hidden cause of disease
Stress affects mental health in obvious ways, but it can also exacerbate cardiac disease and interfere with cancer treatment.
Articles by Aparna Nathan, PhD
A prescription for venom
Nature’s most lethal chemicals offer a new road to pain relief.
A blueprint for a new epigenomic era
A recent effort to sequence the entire human genome also revealed how it can be modified.
New RNA-editing tools expand therapeutic toolkits
Improved chemistry may make RNA editing therapies more feasible in humans.
Turning up the heat on burn treatments
A new product takes on the tricky process of tissue regeneration.
A custom CRISPR solution
Engineered particles improve the efficiency of base editor delivery.
Multiple mutations may no longer stump gene therapies
Creative solutions may enable gene therapy for more common diseases.
A workout for the brain to fight Parkinson's disease?
Exercise may improve cellular power plants gone haywire to ward off Parkinson’s disease. But researchers are still trying to understand how.
Tracing autoimmunity’s roots to babies and bacteria
Microbiome researchers seek to predict and prevent autoimmunity in infants.
Red blood cells sometimes behave like immune cells
Red blood cells may play a role in COVID-19 and other infections.
