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

Coronavirus

Moderna expects to have Omicron booster ready by Fall 2022

Moderna expects to have an Omicron booster that combines its original COVID-19 vaccine with one targeting the variant ready by Fall 2022.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

5G millimeter wave tech may prevent unnecessary skin biopsies

Stevens Tech researchers have developed a device which uses the same tech as the TSA does to find skin cancer tissue without a biopsy.

B. David Zarley

Genetics

A Spanish teen’s genome may hold the secret to lupus

Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.

B. David Zarley

Surgery

Docs discover likely cause of pig heart transplant failure

A pig virus — and not organ rejection — appears to be the reason a man who lived for two months after a pig heart transplant ultimately died.

Kristin Houser

Public Health

Surprise in death data: Malaria has a U-shaped death curve

Better death records can reveal surprises about common killers like malaria — and help save lives.

B. David Zarley

Neuroscience

World’s smallest DBS device reverses Parkinson’s symptoms

An ultra-small deep brain stimulation (DBS) device could increase the number of Parkinson’s patients to receive the powerful treatment.

Kristin Houser

Healthcare

Joystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely

With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control a robotic arm at another location to safely operate on a patient.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Medicine

How Robert Langer, a pioneer in delivering mRNA into the body, failed repeatedly but kept going

Langer published the first paper to show that it was possible to deliver nucleic acids like RNA and DNA to the body via tiny particles.

Robert Langer

Medicine

RNA breakthrough offers a potential heart attack cure

King’s College London researchers have used RNA to regenerate cardiac tissue in pig hearts, what they hope is the first step towards a heart attack cure.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Researchers want to fight cancer — by mutating it even more

Sloan Kettering researchers have proposed a controversial way to improve immunotherapy: making cancer cells mutate on purpose.

B. David Zarley

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