Biomedicine & Disease
Here’s how COVID attacks your ability to smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
NFL ordered to dump ‘race-based’ formula for determining concussion damage, opening door for millions in settlements for retired Black players
The federal judge overseeing the N.F.L. concussion settlement formally removed the use of a race-based method to evaluate dementia tests ...
More than 50 hard-to-detect genetic disorders can now be diagnosed with a revolutionary DNA test
A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, ...
Man who received genetically modified pig heart in first-ever surgery dies
A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, the ...
Why genetic testing might help determine your risk of a heart attack
The most critical genes that cause coronary heart disease and trigger heart attacks have been identified in a major new ...
300,000 Americans contract Lyme disease each year. A gene editing solution could reduce that dramatically
Reducing tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease, may now be possible thanks to two new gene editing methods developed by ...
COVID virus variants may be ‘hiding’ and evolving in your organs
It looks like coronavirus variants can hide out in the human body much like some of their viral cousins do, ...
A chewing gum to reduce the effects of COVID? Scientists say it’s a real possibility
A type of chewing gum mixed with a protein that is a gateway for infections with the novel coronavirus, or ...
Will you need a second COVID booster shot? Probably not.
As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question ...
Ivermectin doesn’t work: Yet another study shows no efficacy in reducing COVID disease progression
Ivermectin failed to prevent older adults with COVID-19 from progressing to severe disease compared with standard of care alone, an ...
Next generation flu shots could be mRNA technology-based
The rapid development of mRNA-based COVID vaccines has sparked fresh interest in earlier efforts to produce new and hopefully more ...
Why we might need not annual COVID boosters
In many parts of the world, the variant’s record-breaking wave is receding. Having a bespoke vaccine in 100 days would ...
Why is COVID usually less severe in children?
Although some children do fall seriously ill after coming down with Covid-19, the most have mild symptoms or no symptoms ...
New COVID vaccine approved in Canada, made by Medicago and derived from plants
Medicago's plant-based COVID-19 vaccine is now approved by Health Canada, which will soon give Canadians the option of getting a ...
More than 7 million immunocompromised people in the US remain vulnerable to COVID. How should their concerns be addressed?
COVID-19 is still all around us, everywhere, and millions of people... are walking around with a compromised immune system. A ...
On the path to a universal COVID vaccine
Is chasing the latest variant a viable strategy? Instead of testing and potentially deploying a new shot when a new ...
Vaccinating the elderly: An unappreciated strategy to reduce COVID deaths
No other basic fact of life matters as dramatically as age for COVID. Other common factors associated with risk—race, diabetes, ...
Babies of vaccinated mothers less likely to be hospitalized with COVID, CDC study finds
Mothers who get vaccinated against COVID-19 while pregnant are likely to pass on protection against the virus to their newborn ...
BioNTech’s audacious plan to bring portable vaccine factories to Africa and the rest of the developing world
At the heart of its site in Marburg, Germany, BioNTech is putting the finishing touches on a new kind of ...
Some paralyzed patients are up and walking within a day thanks to these revolutionary implants
Four years ago Michel Roccati was involved in a motorcycle accident. He suffered what neurologists call a “complete” spinal-cord injury—he ...
What’s behind the boom in diagnosed autism cases?
Is there an autism epidemic? No. The increase in the autism rate recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control ...
HIV treatment breakthroughs continue: 3rd person cured after undergoing umbilical cord blood transfer
Researchers revealed on [February 15] that an American, described as a middle-aged woman of mixed race, has likely been cured ...
Living with chicken pox offers lessons for the COVID era
Last summer, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an internal presentation on the coronavirus, which was leaked to ...
GLP Podcast: Trauma changes your DNA? Lifelike sex robots; Have we cured leukemia?
Can traumatic life experiences leave an imprint on our DNA that we pass down to our children? Get ready, because ...
How artificial intelligence is helping diagnose rare diseases
Many sufferers of rare diseases endure an odyssey until the correct diagnosis is made. "The goal is to detect such ...
Video: ‘Ultimately, I want to build a heart for sick kids’: Watch these robotic fish ‘swim’ using lab-grown cardiac muscle
Scientists have built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells. The fish, which swim on their own, ...
Can mRNA technology used to create COVID vaccines work on cancer, HIV and other diseases?
The vaccines that have helped billions of people around the world to protect themselves from Covid-19 were a surprise even ...
