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

Medicine

Engineered bacteria may one day prevent kidney stones

In a small proof-of-concept study, an engineered E. coli was able to reduce levels of a kidney stone-causing chemical.

B. David Zarley

Food

Harvard and Kraft Heinz are trying to make sugar healthier

Instead of replacing sugar, Wyss scientists had an idea: what if they change sugar to make it healthier?

B. David Zarley

Neuroscience

Neuroscientists recommend more carbs and less coffee to combat seasonal depression

Taking small steps to help your circadian rhythm adjust to winter could mean happier times during what are literally the darkest days.

Lina Begdache

Brain

Researchers have developed a way to “decode” depression

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have developed an electrode-based “mood decoder” capable of mapping brain activity to mood.

B. David Zarley

Neuroscience

MIT is testing light and sound to combat Alzheimer’s

MIT researchers are developing a therapy that uses 40-Hz light and sound to alter Alzheimer’s patients’ gamma waves.

Kristin Houser

Public Health

Just a few short bursts of physical activity each day might yield huge health benefits

Researchers tracked 25,241 non-exercisers wearing accelerometers to find out of brief bursts of activity lowered their risk of dying.

Ross Pomeroy

Neuroscience

AI-based theory explains your weird dreams

Researchers suggest that dreaming helps us generalize our experiences so that we can adapt to new circumstances.

Scotty Hendricks

Neuroscience

How exercise changes your brain biology and protects your mental health

A psychiatrist and neuroscientist began to think of prescribing exercise as telling patients to take their “exercise pills.”

Arash Javanbakht

Biology

Armadillo experiment suggests that we can regenerate human livers with leprosy

M. leprae-infected armadillos develop enlarged, healthy livers with gene expression patterns similar to human fetal livers.

Peter Rogers

Virology

New “future-proof” drug can fight COVID-19 and the common cold

Researchers have identified a compound capable of stopping multiple coronaviruses in cell and tissue models.

B. David Zarley

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