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

Addiction

Cheap blood pressure med could help treat alcoholism

Spironolactone, a cheap medication used to treat high blood pressure, might also be able to help people overcome alcohol use disorder.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

New deep brain stimulator is powered automatically by breathing

A deep brain stimulator powered by breathing could eliminate the need for patients to undergo regular battery-change surgeries.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Old herpes drug helps kill deadly superbug

The anti-herpes drug edoxudine can weaken the deadly superbug K-pneumoniae, potentially offering a new weapon against antibiotic resistance.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed patients walk again

Swiss researchers have used epidural electrical stimulation to restore walking in nine people with chronic spinal cord injuries.

Mo Costandi

Medicine

Doctors may not be ready for blood tests that screen for multiple cancers at once

MCED tests are different from existing ones because they are trying to detect early-stage cancer, when there aren’t that many tumor cells.

Colin Pritchard

Coronavirus

Yale’s new nasal vaccine can boost an mRNA shot

A nasal vaccine delivered as a booster to mRNA shots might offer better protection against COVID-19 and help stop the virus from spreading.

Kristin Houser

Public Health

African researchers push for a human challenge trial to fight TB

Tuberculosis kills over a million people a year. Researchers in Malawi are pushing for a clinical trial that may help change that.

B. David Zarley

Neuroscience

Australian man uses brain implant to send texts from his iPad

The Stentrode — a brain-computer interface implanted through minimally invasive surgery — has been used to send text messages from an iPad

Kristin Houser

Medicine

A new therapy sends lupus into remission

Five patients in Germany had their lupus wiped out by CAR T-cell therapy.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Engineered bacteria may fight this brain-damaging genetic disorder

A possible phenylketonuria therapy using engineered bacteria has shown positive results in a small phase 2 trial.

B. David Zarley

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