Health

The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF

A look back at the history of infertility treatments and ahead to the tech that could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.

Kristin Houser

Overlay of hands and abstract patterns in purple and blue tones, symbolizing hope for Parkinson's cure.

Drugs

The exciting research that may cure Parkinson’s

GeneCode is developing a drug it hopes won’t just alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms but also protect and restore patient’s neural health.

Kevin Dickinson

A child sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, holding and looking intently at a tablet, as if testing the Goldilocks hypothesis for the perfect screen brightness.

Mental Health

Beyond screen time: Rethinking kids’ tech use with the “Goldilocks hypothesis”

The “Goldilocks hypothesis” asks parents to think beyond screen time and consider the habits that teens build around technology use.

Kevin Dickinson

The surprising cure to cybersickness – using VR underwater

Cybersickness is similar to motion sickness, but it comes from using electronic screens like virtual reality. A new study shows that aquatic VR could be the cure.

Teresa Carey

Medicine

New cancer treatment uses “hot blood cells” to target tumors

A new cancer treatment combining immunotherapy, photothermal therapy, and modified blood cells was highly effective in mice.

Kristin Houser

These color-changing sutures can catch infections

Iowa high school senior Dasia Taylor has invented color-changing sutures that can catch an infection early.

B. David Zarley

Deep brain stimulation: explained

Deep brain stimulation is being studied as a treatment for any number of neurological and psychological conditions. But what is it, exactly?

B. David Zarley

Therapeutic bed could help prevent brain damage in babies

Calmer is a therapeutic bed for incubators that simulates a caregiver’s breathing and heartbeat to relieve stress in newborns.

Kristin Houser

Scientists have created a heart valve implant that grows

Children may have heart valve replacement surgery 5 or more times. A lab-grown, growing valve may change that in the future.

B. David Zarley

A common virus may be the key to a COVID vaccine for young children

Researchers have reverse-engineered a common children’s virus to show the spike protein, potentially leading to a new COVID vaccine for young children.

B. David Zarley

“Zombie” cells grow in the brain after death

After death, gene expression increases in the brain’s glial cells — and those “zombie” cells could affect how we study neurological disorders.

Kristin Houser

It's now possible to diagnose concussions with saliva

Saliva was used to diagnose concussions with 94% accuracy, suggesting that an objective concussion test may finally be within reach.

Kristin Houser

CRISPR fixes rare mutation for the first time in a live animal

For the first time in a live animal, researchers have successfully reversed a gene mutation, called a “duplication mutation,” by gene editing.

Teresa Carey

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