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

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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

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Neuroscience

Dementia patients are “rallying” just before death. Scientists want to know why.

New research into terminal lucidity could revolutionize our understanding of dementia — and maybe even give us a way to reverse it.

Kristin Houser

Healthcare

Dignity therapy: Making the last words count

Guided conversations with the terminally ill are popular with patients, families and doctors. But are they truly beneficial?

Lola Butcher | Knowable Magazine

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Medicine

Alzheimer’s disease: an illness that needs a long overdue cocktail

Scientists are starting to agree that the "holy grail" solution for Alzheimer's is more likely to be a drug cocktail than a single treatment.

Surani Fernando

Medicine

Stanford researchers have engineered an organism to fight cancer

A team of Stanford and MIT researchers have engineered bacteria to create a topical tumor treatment and preventative effective in mice.

B. David Zarley

Drugs

LSD effective as major depression therapy in phase 2 trial

MindMed and University Hospital Basel have announced top line results for their phase 2 trial.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Scientists train ants to sniff out cancer in just 30 minutes

Ants were just as accurate as cancer-sniffing dogs. Better yet, they could be trained in minutes rather than months.

Ross Pomeroy

Mental Health

DMT appears effective for depression up to six months later

Small Pharma has announced the results of a six-month follow-up for their phase 2a trial of DMT for depression.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Some cancers shouldn’t be treated

We're detecting and aggressively treating more tumors than ever before. But we're also over-treating more cancers then ever.

Ross Pomeroy

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Mental Health

“Sunshine Calls” help depression and loneliness, study finds

A trial of “Sunshine Calls” found that the empathy-based phone calls helped reduce depression symptoms in older patients.

B. David Zarley

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Medicine

“Nanosyringes” can inject medicine into a single cell

MIT researchers have turned a system found in bacteria into programmable “nanosyringes” for injecting proteins into human cells.

Kristin Houser

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