Year in Review

  1. Health & Medicine

    Approval of gene therapies for two blood cancers led to an ‘explosion of interest’ in 2017

    The first gene therapies approved in the United States are treating patients with certain types of leukemia and lymphoma.

    By Laurel Hamers
  2. Neuroscience

    Brains of former football players showed how common traumatic brain injuries might be

    Examinations of NFL players’ postmortem brains turned up chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 99 percent of samples in large dataset.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Zika cases are down, but researchers prepare for the virus’s return

    The number of Zika cases in the Western Hemisphere have dropped this year, but the need for basic scientific and public health research of the virus remains strong.

    By Aimee Cunningham