Two cases have recently come to light involving the deaths of patients who received gene therapies to treat their diseases. The first case occurred in 2025 and involved a girl who received gene therapy for Snijders-Blok-Campeau syndrome—caused by a defect [...]
Palliative Care is the ethical commitment of a society that is sensitive to the suffering of its citizens. When medicine has failed to prevent or cure a disease, the physician must commit to caring for and supporting the person suffering [...]
A recent meta-analysis evaluates the efficacy of low-dose mifepristone as an emergency contraceptive compared to other interventions. Beyond its effectiveness in reducing pregnancy rates, its mechanism of action and ability to interfere with endometrial receptivity has reignited the debate surrounding [...]
Why do the fundamental laws and constants of the universe possess precisely the values that allow for the existence of stars, planets, complex chemistry, and, ultimately, life? The so-called “fine-tuning of the universe” is one of the great questions that [...]
Two decades after researcher Shinya Yamanaka’s historic discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), cellular reprogramming has become one of the greatest revolutions in contemporary biomedicine. By successfully bringing specialized adult cells back to an embryo-like state of pluripotency, this [...]
A group of scientists from the University of Southern California has developed a method to continuously produce progenitor cells capable of generating macrophages, a type of cell essential for the functioning of the immune system. In a study published in [...]
The Netherlands has recorded its first case of euthanasia performed on a child between the ages of one and twelve since expanding its legislation in 2024. The case, in which neither the child’s age nor illness has been revealed, reopens [...]
Is it possible to create life in a laboratory? The most recent advances in synthetic biology have made it possible to develop artificial cells with some of the functions typical of living organisms, rekindling the debate over the boundaries between [...]
Base editing, a refined form of the widely-known CRISPR-Cas9 technique, allows precise chemical changes to be made in a single DNA letter without cutting the DNA’s double helix. Although this technical innovation broadens the horizon for correcting certain mutations, its [...]
Palliative care, which should be used when it is not possible to cure the patient, but it is possible to relieve their suffering and accompany them in the process of their illness in a multidisciplinary way, should not only be [...]
CRISPR technology, which has traditionally relied on guide RNA molecules to locate specific genetic sequences, may be entering a new era with the development of DNA-guided systems. This paradigm shift promises more stable, precise, and versatile gene editing tools, expanding [...]
Clinical care will most likely undergo a paradigm shift in the coming years. Patients may find themselves facing not a doctor, but a new kind of assistant: an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. The implementation of this technology will not only [...]
