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

Healthcare

New MRI machine will unlock better images for medicine

A new MRI machine with a larger opening and a weaker magnetic field overcomes many shortcomings of other scanners.

Kristin Houser

CRISPR

Gene editing could reverse anxiety and alcohol-use disorder

Gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.

Peter Rogers

Medicine

Silkworms could one day repair human tendons stronger than before

Mixing silk protein with a gel matrix allowed for better cell growth and healing in rat models.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx is taking aim at the high insulin price

People living with insulin-dependent diabetes have been waiting a long time for it to be more affordable. Could things change?

Jing Luo

Wearables

Could a former NASA scientist’s “sunlight glasses” protect your vision?

A former NASA scientist has co-developed a pair of glasses designed to prevent myopia by glowing in a precise wavelength of visible light.

Kristin Houser

Aging

Brain infusions from younger mice revive memory in older ones

Stanford researchers have found that an infusion of cerebrospinal fluid from young mice improves the memory of old ones.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

New vaccine for Epstein-Barr virus enters human trials

A Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) vaccine entering human trials could potentially protect against everything from mono to multiple sclerosis.

Kristin Houser

Food

‘Mad honey’: The rare hallucinogen from the mountains of Nepal

On the mountainsides of Nepal and Turkey, bees sometimes produce a strange and dangerous concoction: mad honey.

Stephen Johnson

Virology

How herpes wakes up

Researchers believe they have identified how herpes hiding in your cells wakes back up to cause symptoms.

B. David Zarley

Brain

Genes from over 5,000 stroke patients hint at surprising treatment

A study of nearly 6,000 stroke patient genomes suggests a treatment idea abandoned for decades should get a second look.

B. David Zarley

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