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

Public Health

Are we scratching the surface of what an old vaccination method can do?

Smallpox vaccine was administered by scratching the skin. Mice suggest this old-school method may work better against other respiratory viruses as well.

B. David Zarley

CRISPR

This company wants to use CRISPR to fix your celiac disease

Sufferers of celiac end up with some pretty lack-luster pastries. A startup thinks CRISPR can help.

B. David Zarley

Drugs

Friendly little mice are helping us understand the effects of LSD

Researchers at McGill have discovered the mechanisms behind the sociable effects of LSD in mice.

B. David Zarley

3D Printing

New 3D bioprinting technique creates bone with living cells

A new 3D bioprinting technique could let doctors print new bone containing living cells right inside a patient’s body.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

HIV drugs appear to prevent the #1 cause of vision loss in seniors

An HIV drug appears to prevent dry macular degeneration, suggesting that drug repurposing could be a viable strategy for treating the incurable disease.

Kristin Houser

Fertility

New vaginal ring reduces risk of HIV and pregnancy

A vaginal ring that serves double duty as both long-term contraception and convenient HIV prevention showed promise in a small study.

Kristin Houser

Virology

MIT's AI predicts new strains of HIV, coronavirus

As coronavirus mutations pop up around the world, researchers at MIT are using language-recognizing AI to try and predict what could be next.

B. David Zarley

Drugs

Mount Sinai is opening a psychedelic research center

A pacesetting institution, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is opening a psychedelic research center focusing on MDMA and trauma.

B. David Zarley

Public Health

Predicting which birds can cause Lyme disease spread

Lyme disease spreads via infected ticks, some of whom pick it up from birds. But which birds may carry the disease to new places?

B. David Zarley

Coronavirus

Johnson and Johnson's coronavirus vaccine is 66% effective

Data from phase 3 trials of Johnson and Johnson's coronavirus vaccine suggests the vaccine is ready to go to the FDA for approval.

Kristin Houser

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