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

Overlay of hands and abstract patterns in purple and blue tones, symbolizing hope for Parkinson's cure.

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

Blood test can find dozens of types of cancer, with few false positives

Grail’s Galleri multi-cancer blood test found multiple cancers in a study of over 6,000 patients.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency

A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health.”

Tong Sun

Coronavirus

Long COVID: Self-targeted immune attacks may lurk behind it

Researchers are working to get a more complete understanding of the cells and antibodies behind long COVID.

Matthew Woodruff

Medicine

Breakthrough drug could save hundreds of thousands of children’s lives

A booster dose of the University of Oxford’s malaria vaccine demonstrated up to 80% efficacy in children over a year of follow-up.

Kristin Houser

Coronavirus

Newly discovered antibody neutralizes all variants of the coronavirus

Using modified mouse models originally designed for HIV, researchers have discovered an antibody that stops all known strains of COVID-19.

B. David Zarley

Virology

At long last, we might have an HIV vaccine

Due to HIV-1's extraordinary diversity, a vaccine needs to induce antibodies that can target many different strains.

Peter Rogers

Medicine

First-of-its-kind trial will attempt to grow mini livers in people

A new treatment that could turn a single donor liver into “mini livers” capable of saving 75 or more lives is heading into human trials.

Kristin Houser

Genetics

Woman with rare gene mutations feels no pain, anxiety

A woman in Scotland was found to feel virtually no pain and report zero trace of any anxiety or depression.

Stephen Johnson

Drugs

Microdosing’s benefits may be powered by belief

A small, double-blind, placebo-controlled study has found evidence that expectations may be behind microdosing’s beneficial effects.

B. David Zarley

Wearables

Shoe wearable could help Parkinson’s patients avoid falling

Data-collecting sensors in shoes can predict a Parkinson’s patient’s fall risk almost as accurately as standard walking tests.

Kristin Houser

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