Health

a stylized image of a person injecting themselves with a GLP-1 agonist
Medicine
Are weight-loss meds the next wonder drugs?
Evidence is mounting that GLP-1 agonists could treat many health issues — including ones that aren’t obviously related to weight.
Kristin Houser
A surgeon in scrubs and a headlamp performs a gene-edited pig kidney transplant, assisted by another healthcare professional, under bright surgical lights.
Surgery
First-of-its-kind pig kidney transplant is a success
A woman with heart and kidney failure is now the second person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant.
Kristin Houser
white pills being poured from a milk container over a black background
Medicine
Milk could overcome one of the biggest hurdles to RNA therapies
RNA therapies typically break down if administered orally, but particles found in cows’ milk could provide perfect protection.
Kristin Houser
An image of a brain with blue and green lights.
Memory
How a mutation in microglia elevates Alzheimer’s risk
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | MIT News
a close-up image of the bacteria A. baumannii
Medicine
Superbug-killing antibiotic is now in human trials
Kristin Houser
A bowl of soup with a thermometer on it.
Food
Nutrition professor answers: Does chicken soup really help when you’re sick?
Colby Teeman
a baby in a hospital bed
Surgery
Toddler thriving after world’s first partial heart transplant
Kristin Houser
A silhouette of a person holding a cell phone in front of a tree.
Memory
How does Alzheimer’s disease erode memory? New findings on risk gene offer insights
Mo Costandi
A man and a woman jogging.
Aging
The most damaging exercise myth
Ross Pomeroy
A collage including a light switch with a dna strand.
Genetics
New on/off switch in mRNA lets doctors “tune” gene therapy
Kristin Houser
A japanese man is holding up a piece of paper.
Mental Health
Research: inflammation and mortality may be caused by low “psychological well-being”
Matt Davis
Two images of a brain with a green light and a purple light.
Neuroscience
Your brain “wakes up” more than 100 times each night. That’s normal — and maybe good
Ross Pomeroy
A man is eating a sandwich.
Food
Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn’t?
Kevin Dickinson