Sharon Begley

In her final report for STAT, science writer Sharon Begley examined the rising incidence of lung cancer in people who had never smoked. Though she never directly mentioned it in the article, it was a story she was living, having been diagnosed with lung cancer in July 2020. Begley died Jan. 16, just…

Scientists disagree whether the number of lung cancer patients who never smoked is increasing, but the proportion who never did clearly is.

Sharon Begley, whose science journalism career spanned 43 years at Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and STAT, died Saturday at 64.

If the results are confirmed in human trials, “this has the feel of something that could be a true genetic cure with a single injection.”

The experiment shows how difficult it will be to use eggs created from embryonic stem cells for human reproduction.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute and Jennifer Doudna of the University of California have won for their CRISPR discovery.

Focusing on science’s greatest hits to forecast the Nobel winners is too simplistic. The smart money looks for other criteria.

A second study looked in unprecedented detail at the brains of pigeons and barn owls, finding hints to the basis of their intelligence.

In 25 of the 33 states that saw reported Covid-19 cases increase between May and July, the count rose because there was actually more disease.

Sweden’s light-handed restrictions produced results similar to those in countries with stricter policies because Swedes voluntarily self-isolated.

Two new studies add to the near-universal scientific consensus that face coverings can prevent the transmission of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.

Researchers reported Wednesday that they had turned a bacterial toxin into the world’s first editor of genes in mitochondria, the cell’s power plant.

The rating system relies not just on traditional quality measures, but also on a hospital’s community-minded policies and avoidance of unnecessary care.

When CRISPR “base editing” knocked out two cholesterol-associated genes in monkeys, the animals’ blood levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides plunged.

The MIT researchers’ key finding is that the underlying reasons for the link between race and death rate are not the usual suspects.

After the retractions of two Covid-19 papers from top journals, the scientific community is once again wrestling whether it could have been prevented.

STAT asked 11 experts in infectious disease, epidemiology, and pandemic preparedness how to avoid the mistakes of the coronavirus response this spring.

What a month ago had been merely an intriguing lab finding about testing wastewater to detect the coronavirus has leapt to the threshold of real-world use.

The surgeries were approved by two hospitals and the FDA, but some medical ethicists were left uneasy by aspects of the experiment.