Rob Stein

FDA advisers debate the agency’s controversial proposal to start handling the COVID vaccines like the flu shots — updating them annually to target the most likely strain to be dominant each winter.

The Food and Drug Administration proposes easing many restrictions on gay and bisexual men donating blood.

The main reason the surge is ebbing now, pandemic experts suspect, is the significant immunity many people in the U.S. have acquired from prior infections and COVID vaccinations many received.

After three years, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center is ceasing operations. Its data dashboards and maps became go-to sources for information from the early days of the pandemic.

Victoria Gray’s life has been transformed by her treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique called CRISPR. She’s in London telling her story at a scientific summit.

Scientists in Japan are leaders in the development of IVG, new technology that could make sperm and eggs from practically any cell in the body. The results could transform human reproduction.

Public health experts are urging people to take advantage of the fact that this year, for the first time, vaccines are available for three major respiratory viruses: flu, COVID and RSV.

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine played a crucial role in the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet Tuesday to review the first treatment of human disease using the gene-editing technique CRISPR. The agency has a December deadline to make a decision.

Researchers report the first results from a study testing the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR for cutting high cholesterol.