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

Virology

“LEGO-like” vaccine protects mice from COVID, SARS, MERS, and variants

Using a “chimeric” spike protein, researchers have immunized mice against multiple types of coronaviruses with one shot.

B. David Zarley

CRISPR

CRISPR therapy cures first genetic disorder inside the body

For the first time, researchers appear to have effectively cured a genetic disorder by directly injecting a CRISPR therapy into patients’ bloodstreams.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Diagnosing infections without the lab — or wait

Researchers have developed a device that can test for infections in under an hour, no lab needed.

B. David Zarley

Surgery

Inside the world of a robotic surgeon

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In partnership with Intuitive

Many of the world’s top surgeons are learning first-hand what they can do with surgical robots — and it’s unlocking a new era in health care.

Jack Berning

Medicine

A new superbug strategy

Researchers at the University of Geneva have a new idea on how to stop superbugs: don’t kill them.

B. David Zarley

Surgery

Kidney donation vouchers shave years off wait times

Kidney donation vouchers appear to be working as hoped, increasing the number of donations and decreasing wait times for needed organs.

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

These mind-reading helmets could be a Fitbit for your brain

Kernel has developed two mind-reading helmets that record the same brain activity data as massive, million-dollar machines, but cost just $100,000.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

There may be a way to reverse acetaminophen damage in the liver

New research out of Singapore suggests that a protein thought to help acetaminophen toxicity may do the opposite.

B. David Zarley

Series| Just Might Work

Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin

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These biohackers plan to give away their instructions for how to make insulin for free.

Jack Berning

Brain

Treatment appears to stop Alzheimer's in monkeys

NYU researchers have modified monkey’s immune system to slow their equivalent of Alzheimer’s disease and improve their cognition.

B. David Zarley

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