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
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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
A person’s wrist wearing a smartwatch displaying a high-intensity interval training workout screen. Among smart health devices, this one stands out with its clarity and ease of use. Green exercise mat and white sneakers are visible in the background.
Wearables
How smart devices helped me unlock hidden health wins
Kevin Dickinson
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Medicine
Revolutionary weight-loss drugs like Wegovy come with a catch
Kristin Houser
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Medicine
Are weight-loss meds the next wonder drugs?
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
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
Kristin Houser
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Cancer
New study challenges long-held assumption about cancer
Kristin Houser
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Memory
How sensory gamma rhythm stimulation clears amyloid in Alzheimer’s mice
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | MIT News
Sustainability
Scientists have invented a method to break down “forever chemicals” in our drinking water
Johnny Wood | World Economic Forum
X-ray image of a human chest showing lungs and rib cage, with visible abnormal dark patches indicating possible tuberculosis.
Medicine
AI can help predict whether a patient will respond to specific tuberculosis treatments
Sriram Chandrasekaran
a vaccine vial in front of a backdrop of cells
Vaccines
Personalized cancer vaccines are having a moment
Kristin Houser