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

A malaria-fighting antibody has passed phase 2 trials

An antibody designed to prevent malaria infection has proven effective in phase 2 trials in Mali.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

UK trials world’s first lab-grown blood transfusions

UK researchers have launched the world’s first trial in which lab-grown blood cells are being transfused into another person.

Kristin Houser

Psychology

“Laughing gas” may offer quick, long-lasting relief from depression

With ketamine showing potential as an antidepressant, researchers investigate another anesthetic: nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas."

Robby Berman

Biology

DNA-damaging molecules in the gut linked to colon cancer

A new Yale study linking a DNA-damaging molecule in the gut to colorectal cancer may give us a way to prevent the deadly disease.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

New mRNA vaccine for flu and COVID-19 enters human trials

Pfizer and BioNTech's new mRNA vaccine designed to protect against COVID-19 and the flu has entered human trials.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

New study will put the leading theory about Alzheimer’s to the test

Washington University in St. Louis is embarking on a drug trial that may also put the amyloid hypothesis to its ultimate test.

B. David Zarley

Healthcare

Organ regeneration could overcome liver failure, without a transplant

Patients wait from 30 days to over five years to receive a liver transplant in the U.S. What if the liver could regenerate itself instead?

Satdarshan (Paul) Singh Monga

Healthcare

New exercise study could find drugs that mimic working out

MIT and Harvard researchers mapped out many of the cells, genes, and cellular pathways that are modified by exercise or high-fat diet.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Medicine

Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for pregnant women protects newborns

Pfizer plans to begin the regulatory approval process by the end of the year.

B. David Zarley

Healthcare

These earbuds can tell if a newborn has hearing problems

A newborn hearing screening device made from off-the-shelf earbuds is as effective as expensive commercial options.

Kristin Houser

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