Family hope to finally get answers three years after toddler died following family holiday

Family hope to finally get answers three years after toddler died following family holiday

It was a family vacation that turned into tragedy. Now, three years later, the family of a two-year-old girl who died after returning from Turkey is hoping to finally find out why she lost her. Allie Brenda Birchall fell ill just after the 10 day holiday in July 2019. She died at the Royal Manchester … Read more

Desperate Dems Hope Bill You’ve Never Heard of Can Fill in for Stalled Biden Agenda

Desperate Dems Hope Bill You’ve Never Heard of Can Fill in for Stalled Biden Agenda

Leigh Vogel/Getty A deeply wonky high-tech investment bill wasn’t meant to be Democrats’ plan A—or their plan B, C, or D. But with the vast majority of President Joe Biden’s economic, climate, and social welfare agenda stymied in the all-but-buried Build Back Better Act, Democrats are getting creative. They are putting at least some of … Read more

Can humans regrow limbs? A lab study with frogs offers hope

Can humans regrow limbs? A lab study with frogs offers hope

Weekly, Michael Levin receives phone calls and letters from people who have lost limbs. How this happened varies — industrial accidents, military injuries, birth defects, the list goes on — but they approach Levin, a professor and director of the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University, with the same question: When can … Read more

Chile’s “New Left” Brings Hope

Chile’s “New Left” Brings Hope

Chilean Ppresident-elect Gabriel Boric waves at supporters after delivering a speech in Santiago. (Martin Bernetti / AFP) Many Chileans breathed a sigh of relief on the night of December 19—not just in the headquarters of the Chilean left but also in their homes and on social media—at news of the electoral defeat of the reactionary … Read more