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Rob Stein

Recent Contributions

  • Sickle cell patient's success with gene editing raises hopes and questions
  • Experts weigh medical advances in gene-editing with ethical dilemmas
  • FDA moves to ease restrictions on blood donations for men who have sex with men
  • FDA considers major shift in COVID vaccine strategy
  • Can you get COVID and the flu at the same time?
  • China's COVID surge prompts CDC to expand hunt for new variants among air travelers
  • RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'
  • CRISPR gene-editing may boost cancer immunotherapy, new study finds
  • Experts are concerned Thanksgiving gatherings could accelerate a 'tripledemic'
  • Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity