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
A man is holding a laptop with a thermal sensor on it.
Prosthetics
Man feels hot and cold again with prosthetic hand breakthrough
Kevin Dickinson
A close up of a brain with blue lights on it.
Neuroscience
Evidence that gamma rhythm stimulation can treat neurological disorders is emerging
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | MIT News
Microscope view of human skin treated with a short interfering RNA (siRNA) drug
Medicine
New pharma supergroup aims to tackle skin disorders
Kristin Houser
A young black man with anxiety, holding his head in distress.
Mental Health
​Why is anxiety spiking in young people but not older adults?
Stephen Johnson
an illustration of two people fighting, but their bodies are made entirely of cells as seen under a microscope.
Cancer
Scientists stole a mutation from cancer and used it to kill tumors
Kristin Houser
A person finding motivation to run on a treadmill.
Sports
Focus on right now, not the distant future, to stay motivated and on track to your long-term health goals
Paul Stillman and Kaitlin Woolley
A collage showing older people hugging
Brain
Injections of brain protein reverse memory loss in mice
Kristin Houser
Two women hugging in front of a kitchen filled with an abundance of food, portraying the significance of "you are what you eat.
Genetics
Netflix’s “You Are What You Eat” proves twin studies’ importance to science
Nathan Kettlewell
a collage of cells, blood, pills, and other health-related imagery
Immunology
How to stop our immune systems from turning on us
Kristin Houser
An image of a cell with blue and red lights.
Cancer
New hope for early pancreatic cancer intervention via AI-based risk prediction
Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL