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American home gardeners are browsing seed catalogs and choosing their favorite heirlooms when they discover a new seed: a concord grape-colored tomato with plum-colored flesh. It seems alien, possibly Photoshopped. It’s not. Norfolk Plant Sciences spent 20 years hacking snapdragon flower color genes into this nightshade to make it purple. The genes produce pigment and...

Chantel Brink

Chantel Brink

Freelance Writer

The first brain cancer patient was a 13-year-old Belgian boy. Lucas Jemeljanova, six, was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare and severe brain tumor that kills 98% of patients within five years. A clinical experiment randomly allocated him to receive Everolimus, a chemotherapeutic medication that treats kidney, pancreas, breast, and brain cancer...

Mayukh Saha

Mayukh Saha

Freelance Writer