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

Mental Health

Withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants can last over a year

A scientific review found that withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants and antipsychotics can last for over a year.

Derek Beres

Medicine

Merck pays Moderna $250m for personalized cancer vaccine

Pharma giant Merck has paid Moderna $250 million to co-develop and commercialize its promising mRNA-based personalized cancer vaccine.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

Deep brain stimulation can be life-altering for OCD sufferers when other treatment options fall short

Deep brain stimulation relies on thin electrodes implanted deep in the brain that deliver electrical currents. Could it treat OCD?

Rachel A. Davis

Biology

Five-minute breathing exercise can lower blood pressure

A simple breathing exercise called IMST can lower blood pressure as effectively as meds or aerobic exercise when done for five minutes a day.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

New vaccine prevents 94% of severe RSV cases

UK drugmaker GSK’s RSV vaccine was nearly 95% effective at preventing severe infection in a phase 3 trial of older adults.

Kristin Houser

Virology

As Ebola reaches Ugandan capital, vaccines race to catch up

Caused by the Sudan strain of Ebola, current vaccines and therapies approved for Ebola won’t work in Uganda. But these might.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

UK scientists solve a decades-long blood mystery

Researchers have discovered a new blood group which may have been behind the tragic loss of two babies.

B. David Zarley

Fertility

Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way

A survey of over 9,000 men in nine countries found that over 55% would be willing to use a new method of male birth control.

Christina Chung-Lun Wang

Biology

Like genes, your gut microbes pass from one generation to the next

Not only did microbes diversify with their early modern human hosts as they traveled across the globe, they followed human evolution.

Ruth Ley and Taichi A. Suzuki

Surgery

First-of-its-kind surgery may have helped reverse baby’s paralysis

The first recipient of a groundbreaking spina bifida treatment is now one year old and showing no signs of leg paralysis.

Kristin Houser

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