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

Meningitis vaccine appears to protect against gonorrhea, too

Young people who received a meningitis vaccine appeared to be protected against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea, too.

Kristin Houser

Bionics

Man builds his own bionic hand out of melted plastic bottles

After creating a bionic hand for himself, Peruvian engineer Enzo Romero launched a company to sell the low-cost prosthetics to others.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Repurposing generic drugs can reduce time and cost to develop new treatments

Jonathan Sexton

Medicine

A “magnetic tentacle robot” could hunt down cancer deep in your lungs

UK researchers have developed a small, flexible, snake-like "magnetic tentacle robot" to navigate deep into the lungs.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

These upcoming cancer vaccines may prevent tumors before they appear

A new generation of preventative cancer vaccines for non-viral cancers are set to enter their first trials.

B. David Zarley

Virology

Researchers identified over 5,500 new viruses in the ocean

These discoveries help scientists better understand not only the evolutionary history of viruses but also the evolution of life on Earth.

Matthew Sullivan and James Wainaina and Ahmed Zayed and Guillermo Dominguez Huerta

Biology

MIT’s new bacteria protects guts from antibiotic-caused dysbiosis

An engineered bacteria protects the gut microbiome from antibiotics to help people battle infections without risking dysbiosis.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Probiotic gut bacteria can produce a vital Parkinson’s drug

L-DOPA is a miraculous Parkinson’s drug with terrible side effects. Researchers have created drug-producing bacteria that may help.

B. David Zarley

Coronavirus

Strange treatment may restore sense of smell after COVID

Philadelphia doctors are treating COVID patient’s loss of smell with plasma-soaked sponges. But whether it is working or not still needs to be sniffed out.

B. David Zarley

Bionics

Bedridden woman stands again thanks to spinal implant

A spinal cord stimulator is helping a woman who was bedridden for 18 months because she fainted every time she stood up regain her mobility.

Kristin Houser

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