Bio News

Not cool. About 20,000young women in Europe—Europe, people!—are “at risk” from female genitalmutilation (FGM) each year (BBC News).

Landmark. Europe is close toapproving a gene therapy for the first time (BBC News).

Big, big success story: 
The first child ever to receive a trachea made via his own stemcells has progressed remarkably since the transplant two years ago (ABC News).

Regulation needed. Some call plastic surgery the ‘WildWest’ of medicine (CNN).