EditorialThe office of Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of the abortion pill RU-486, at the Kremlin-Bicetre Hospital in Paris, with a jumble of memorabilia, papers, books, art and a chalkboard with sketches of how the brain processes memories, Oct. 11, 2022. (Julie Glassberg/The New York Times)
EditorialAustin Beggin, paralyzed from the shoulders down after a diving accident, undergoes testing as part of research into brain implants meant to restore function to paraplegics, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Nov. 29, 2022. (Daniel Lozada/The New York Times)
EditorialA sample from some of the brains that have been donated to the Australian Sports Brain Bank, in Sydney, May 17, 2019.(Alana Holmberg/The New York Times)
EditorialImages of Chuck Osborne, a former NFL player who died in 2012 and whose brain showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, at the home of his mother, Kathleen Bajgrowicz, in Santa Clarita, Calif., Oct. 7, 2022. (Morgan Lieberman/The New York Times)
EditorialAlison Barker, a neuroscientist, holds a naked mole rat at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, Aug. 15, 2022. (Felix Schmitt/The New York Times)
EditorialMarija Pyzhyk embraces her daughter Khrystyna Pyzhyk, 5, during an outing at the Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tenn., on April 8, 2022. (Isadora Kosofsky/The New York Times)
EditorialA research nurse scans a girl’s brain to assess stroke risk at the sickle cell clinic at Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, July 25, 2019. (KC Nwakalor/The New York Times)
EditorialSonia Vallabh, right, with her husband, Eric Minikel, at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 23, 2019. (Monica Jorge/The New York Times)