Health

A person wearing blue gloves operates a piece of scientific equipment, handling small yellow cubes that are immersed in a cryogenic container.
Fertility
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
longevity research
Aging
What HIV & Amish DNA can tell us about staying healthy longer
Kristin Houser
new covid-19 vaccine
Coronavirus
India authorizes “world’s COVID-19 vaccine,” created in Texas
Kristin Houser
HIV prevention injection
Medicine
HIV prevention injection approved by FDA
Kristin Houser
Surgery
This robotics lab wants to develop the dream surgery
B. David Zarley
Medicine
5 clinical trials may bring new hope in 2022
B. David Zarley
Biology
Top 4 biotech breakthroughs of 2021
Jackie Rocheleau
Neuroscience
Blocking an immune system protein helped mice recover from brain injury
Jeanne Paz
Drugs
Should psychedelics be patented? 
B. David Zarley
Neuroscience
Brain wrinkles and folds matter – researchers are studying the mechanics of how they form 
Weiying Dai and Mir Jalil Razavi
Drugs
The DMT ‘elves’ people meet while tripping 
Stephen Johnson