Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A typical mouse embryo (left) has four limbs. An embryo in which a particular gene was switched off halfway through development has six limbs, and several of its internal organs protrude from its abdomen.Credit: Anastasiia Lozovska … Read more
When Lisa McCorkell got COVID-19 in March 2020, her symptoms were mild. Her physicians told her to isolate from others and that she would recover in a few weeks. But the weeks stretched into months and McCorkell, who was working on a master’s degree in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, started having … Read more
Researchers at OSF HealthCare want to make sure that patients have “important conversations” about their plans for the end of their lives.Only 22% of Americans write down their end-of-life plans, according to study. A team at OSF HealthCare in Illinois is using artificial intelligence to help doctors figure out which patients are more likely to … Read more