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Jerry Parkes graduated from Wharton and decided to return to his homeland to put his business acumen to use in the agricultural field.

After decades of hope and disappointment, doctors have now been able to treat several different types of genetic conditions by giving each patient a healthy version of their defective gene.

The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.

The siblings in Chloe Benjamin's new book, The Immortalists, are told the date they will die. The knowledge changes their lives in fundamental ways. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with the author.

A number of top election officials won't be around next year. Some are retiring after long careers, but others are feeling the strain of an increasingly demanding and politicized job.

Even before Hank Aaron set foot on the field or got a hit in Atlanta, said former Mayor Andrew Young, he "changed this city" for the better.

Millions of television viewers are getting their first extended look at the sprawling Democratic primary field over two nights in Miami this week. How did candidates do on the first night of debate?

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tim Murtaugh, communications director for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, about the president' strategy. Amid coronavirus concerns, Trump is making campaign stops.

Rattan Lal, an Indian-born scientist, has devoted his career to finding ways to capture carbon from the air and store it in soil. Today, that idea has a catchy name: regenerative agriculture.

Patrick Meier pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, compiling information to create a real time map of damage. Now he's focusing on humanitarian uses of drones.