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

Surgery

Baby thrives after first-of-its-kind heart transplant

A baby’s first-of-its-kind heart transplant could help future patients avoid organ rejection and reduce the need for immunosuppressant drugs.

Kristin Houser

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Medicine

How the antidepressant Prozac could treat blindness

Prozac is a widely used antidepressant. Data indicates that the drug could be used to prevent blindness due to macular degeneration.

Peter Rogers

Neuroscience

Brains scans of the placebo effect show new way to treat depression

A meta-study of placebo effect research has revealed a link between the phenomenon and brain stimulation as a depression treatment.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

New antidepressant helps patients in just three days

Adding the new antidepressant zuranolone to standard treatments helped people with major depressive disorder feel better in less time.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

How a bedtime routine may affect your brain — and your sleep

A mouse study has yielded new insights into the effect of a bedtime routine on the brain, which could lead to new therapies for insomniacs.

Kristin Houser

Biology

Spinal cord implants help paralyzed people walk again

A new spinal cord implant uses electricity to reawaken spinal neurons.

Teresa Carey

Biology

New tech cuts years off of DNA sequencing

The Stanford Medicine team set a new record for DNA sequencing. They went from obtaining a blood sample to diagnosing an illness in just 8 hours.

Teresa Carey

Biology

Sonic waves could help bones grow back after cancer

A technique that turns stem cells into bone cells using only sound waves could help people regrow bone destroyed by disease.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

90% of drugs fail clinical trials – here’s one way researchers can select better drug candidates

It’s disappointing when the years of effort and resources spent to push a drug candidate to patients so often lead to failure.

Duxin Sun

Medicine

What the Russian invasion means for clinical trials in Ukraine

Russia’s invasion has the potential to disrupt clinical trials in Ukraine, warns one of the many companies staging trials in the nation.

Kristin Houser

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