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Designer babies
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 08/01/2019
» Twin girls Lulu and Nana are no ordinary children. Claimed as the world's first gene-edited babies, they quickly came under the global spotlight from the moment they came into this world. Now they are being received with great interest and curiosity among not just doctors and scientists but also many people around the world. Even the World Health Organisation (WHO) had to set up a special panel to look at the technique through which the twins were conceived.
Not just kids' stuff
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 23/01/2018
» Some diseases are branded as a threat only among children. The rotavirus infection is one of them. With statistics worldwide finding rotavirus responsible for 50% of diarrhoea cases in young children, we somehow underestimate the consequences it might bring to our entire population.
No longer medical sci-fi
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/02/2018
» Imagine a world without cancer, HIV, flu or diabetes. Humans somehow strive for such a utopia but no one can say if it's near, or even possible.
Getting precise
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/02/2017
» Medical technologies to treat infertility have evolved quickly in response to modern people's difficulties having babies. In the past, an assisted reproductive technology like in vitro fertilisation would only suggest trial procedures, meaning the chance of success can vary and is never guaranteed. But the latest science to help with pregnancy has developed to the point that it leaves almost no room for failure.
How scared should you be?
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 16/09/2016
» Despite a rapid increase in the number of Zika-infected patients reported earlier this month in Thailand, the public have been left in the dark about the virus.
On society's hands
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 12/04/2016
» Although Ekawat Suwantaroj keeps reminding himself that his suffering from haemophilia since birth does not bar him from living a normal life, the hereditary blood disease has made him feel different, especially when he was little.