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

Aging

The science behind “anti-aging” diets

A recent study reviewed the efficacy of popular diets that claim to have anti-aging benefits.

Ross Pomeroy

Coronavirus

How the new coronavirus variant was found and what we know so far

Omicron is a new 'variant of concern' but there's still so much about it that we don't know.

Prof. Wolfgang Preiser, Cathrine Scheepers, Jinal Bhiman, Marietjie Venter, Tulio de Oliveira

Food

A patch to treat peanut allergies appears safe to wear for years

A peanut allergy can be debilitating at best, and life threatening at worst. A new possible treatment looks to be safe to wear for at least three years.

B. David Zarley

Public Health

Tuberculosis may spread through aerosols, without coughing

University of Cape Town researchers believe tuberculosis may spread in small aerosols, much like COVID-19.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

This engineer fixed his own heart

When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.

Geoff Watts

Medicine

How a BBQ lighter can make DNA vaccines more powerful

Georgia Tech researchers turned a BBQ lighter into a delivery system that uses electricity to boost the potency of DNA vaccines.

Kristin Houser

Robotics

Vaccine robot administers doses without needles or human help

Canadian startup Cobioni has built a vaccine robot that can deliver a dose into a patient’s arm without a needle or any human help.

Kristin Houser

Virology

Second patient clears own body of HIV, hinting cure is possible

Two “elite controllers” that no longer have any replicable HIV virus in their bodies may hold the key to a cure for HIV.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

“Dancing” molecules repair spinal cord injuries in paralyzed mice

A treatment for spinal cord injuries was able to reverse paralysis in mice by “dancing” to connect with cells near the site of the injury.

Kristin Houser

Mental Health

Psilocybin treatment relieves depression in largest trial yet

The largest psilocybin treatment trial to date suggests that the psychedelic drug can help people with treatment-resistant depression.

Kristin Houser

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