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Are ‘superdodgers’ real? Is COVID seasonal? We’re finally making progress on understanding 7 of the biggest COVID mysteries
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was ...
Medical marijuana for animals? Veterinarians test treating pets and zoo animals with CBD and THC
Many people and their doctors have embraced medical marijuana for health ills, treating pets and zoo animals with CBD and ...
‘There is no sound I don’t like’ — In gene editing breakthrough, Lilly’s 30-day gene therapy restores hearing of 11-year old boy, with more deafness treatments on the way
The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will soon be tried in children who are younger ...
AI tools are already supercharging online harassment and hate campaigns. Can they be stopped?
A glimpse at how nefarious internet users could employ sophisticated AI tools to supercharge online harassment and hate campaigns ...
Sperm donation is no longer anonymous. Where do we go from here?
Recent findings in behavioral science show the role of genetics in shaping certain individual characteristics ...
Is biological age testing useful or overrated?
New tests promise to tell you if you have the cells of a 30-year-old or a 60-year-old. Here’s what to ...
Past and present intertwine: Traumatic memories spark brain area involved in introspection and daydreaming
Traumatic memories appeared to engage a different area of the brain — the posterior cingulate cortex or P.C.C ...
Monsanto’s lingering shadow: Bayer grapples with growing Roundup legal costs
Three years after Bayer agreed to pay $10 billion to settle claims that its weedkiller, Roundup, caused cancer, juries continue ...
Extending dog lifespans? Next wave of longevity drugs aim to add years to pet lives
Scientists have been chasing after drugs that might stave off this heartbreak by extending the lives of our canine companions ...
‘Race is not a biological risk factor’: American Heart Association reassesses use of race in calculating risk of heart attacks and strokes
The cardiac-risk algorithm is an acknowledgment that, unlike sex or age, race identification in and of itself isn't a biological ...
Get headaches from red wine? Here’s the culprit
Is it sulfites, tannins or another culprit? Here’s what the research says about the migraines some people get with a ...
Almost all supplements are useless, experts say. Here’s a few that offer some benefits
The U.S. dietary supplement industry has exploded in the last 30 years, growing from about 4,000 products in 1994 to ...
The serotonin effect: Here’s an intriguing explanation for the mystery of long COVID
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that serotonin reduction is triggered by remnants of the virus lingering in the ...
Does same-sex bonding in animals provide insight into sexual orientation in humans?
Apes branched off from other primates about 25 million years ago and evolved a much higher rate of same-sex sexual ...
Ocean-bound fish farms are increasingly unsustainable. Land-based salmon farms can address environmental challenges
Salmon is the second-most-popular seafood in the United States, where the average American consumes more than three pounds a year ...
These beekeepers don’t want you to start your own honeybee hives. Here’s why
The craze for honey bees now presents a genuine ecological challenge. Not just in Slovenia, but around the world ...
Hot-weather cherries? Drought-resistant melons? Here are 8 new climate-hardy fruits and veggies on the horizon
Recent floods left more than a third of California’s table grapes rotting on the vine. Too much sunlight is burning apple crops ...
Surprising consequence of dinosaur extinction: Helping flowers become a dominant form of plant life
When a mountain-size slab of space rock rammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, the fallout was apocalyptic. Tsunamis washed away coastlines, ...
FDA finally admits that active ingredient in some DayQuil and Sudafed decongestants isn’t effective. How many other commonly-used drugs don’t work?
Nearly two decades ago, several pharmacists started calling into the University of Florida Drug Information and Pharmacy Resource Center hotline ...
Viewpoint: Antidepressants and obesity medications work — but we don’t know why. Here’s why that’s a problem
We like to think we understand the drugs we take, especially after rigorous trials have proved their efficacy and safety ...
Menstruation and evolution: The history of humanity has side-lined the role of women
A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary ...
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic are changing how we think about health — but we still don’t know how they work
Although the drugs seem safe, obesity medicine specialists call for caution because the obesity drugs must be taken indefinitely or ...
Suffering from postpartum depression? Newly-approved drug works in as few as three days
Because the pill works faster than other antidepressants and is taken for only two weeks, it may encourage more treatment ...
American Academy of Pediatrics says it will review evidence on safety of gender care and surgery for children, but keeps current treatment recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical ...
Genetically-modified pig kidney transplants into live patients may be next in wake of successful transplants into brain-dead patients
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a peer-reviewed study showing that modified pig kidneys performed complex life-sustaining ...
Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches undisclosed settlement with ThermoFisher, ending 70-year long battle for compensation after using her cancer cells without permission
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks announced a lawsuit in October 2021 accusing Thermo Fisher Scientific of profiting from cancer cells that ...
‘Effectively banned’: Florida’s GOP-lead legislature battles with College Board after voting to strip sections on gender fluidity and sexual orientation from AP Psychology curriculum
The nonprofit said it would not remove a section on gender and sexual orientation, as Florida had requested, and advised ...
Viewpoint: We still don’t know where COVID truly came from. Should we be concerned?
Ongoing mystery: We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters ...