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Words began to weigh him down to earth. Today, trump sat down with our political director, john dickerson. Reporter theres been a lot of commentary this week that this has been the worst week in your campaign. A lot of people want to stop you. Are they succeeding . I dont know that its been the worst week in my campaign. I think ive had many bad weeks and ive had many good weeks. I dont see this as worst week in my campaign. Certainly ive had some weeks and youve been reporting on them where tha...

Like, the miracle of of my lifetime that we met. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley Donald Trumps president ial ride seems to defy gravity, but this week, republican opposition, a criminal charge against his campaign manager, and his own words began to weigh him down to earth. Today, trump sat down with our political director, john dickerson. Reporter theres been a lot of commentary this week that this has been the worst week in your campaign. A lo...

Campaign manager, and his own words began to weigh him down to earth. Today, trump sat down with our political director, john dickerson. Reporter theres been a lot of commentary this week that this has been the worst week in your campaign. A lot of people want to stop you. Are they succeeding . I dont know that its been the worst week in my campaign. I think ive had many bad weeks and ive had many good weeks. I dont see this as worst week in my campaign. Certainly ive had some weeks and youve be...

Campaign manager, and his own words began to weigh him down to earth. Today, trump sat down with our political director, john dickerson. Reporter theres been a lot of commentary this week that this has been the worst week in your campaign. A lot of people want to stop you. Are they succeeding . I dont know that its been the worst week in my campaign. I think ive had many bad weeks and ive had many good weeks. I dont see this as worst week in my campaign. Certainly, ive had some weeks and youve b...

In an important step toward more effective gene therapies for brain diseases, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have engineered a gene-delivery vehicle that uses a human protein to efficiently cross the blood-brain barrier and deliver a disease-relevant gene to the brain in mice expressing the human protein.

My dad died last spring. Two months after a doctor diagnosed him with a fatal prion disease. This spring, Im trying to move forward.

In the mornings, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikels first job is to get their two garrulous kids awake, fed and out the door to daycare and kindergarten. They then reconvene at the office and turn their focus to their all-consuming mission: to cure, treat, or prevent genetic prion disease. Prions are self-replicating proteins that can cause fatal brain disease. For a decade, Sonia Vallabh has been living with the knowledge that she has a genetic mutation that will likely cause in her the same disea...

“This is basically not a survivable mutation,” said the biologist who led the research. “If you have it, you’re pretty much dead.”