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Fake news has certainly become a widespread and insidious problem, and in a year when we’re dealing with both a ...

Just as our human relationships and connections can nudge, push, or dramatically shift societal values and consequences, the connections between ...

Tissue engineering just got wilder and weirder. Using nothing but light and bioink, scientists were able to directly print a ...

Kidneys clean our blood using nephrons, which are essentially filters that let fluid and waste products through while blocking blood ...

A team of scientists was pulsing imperceptible ultrasound waves through his skull into frontal parts of his brain, and tacitly ...

Trying to hack fitness is a multi-million-dollar industry; we’ve all seen at least one ad featuring a purported miracle product ...

Archaeologists have uncovered scores of long-abandoned settlements along coastal Madagascar that reveal environmental connections to modern-day communities. They have detected ...

The first time we find evidence of life on a planet orbiting another star (an exoplanet), it is probably going ...

On-the-spot DNA tests could prove invaluable to doctors, farmers, and officials responsible for food safety or environmental monitoring. Now Chinese ...

There’s a reason contact tracing has survived the test of time: it works. Thanks to epic efforts at hunting down ...

According to STAT, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Health (NIH) are betting on synthetic biology to ...

There’s plenty of hope and opportunity to be found in this crisis. Peter Xing, a keynote speaker and writer on ...

One of the most recent studies showed a clear relationship between two brain networks critical to consciousness. In a paper ...

Become partially android for a couple of years while your body heals itself. It may sound far-fetched, but for patients ...

The speed at which the price of genetic sequencing has fallen has been astonishing, from $50,000 a decade ago to roughly $600 today ...

This month, K.L. became one of the first patients to receive a new experimental gene therapy for children with a ...

It’s impossible not to draw parallels between SARS and the new coronavirus outbreak, COVID-19, that’s been ravaging China and spreading ...

We’re now facing the emergence of strains of super bacteria resistant to one or more antibiotics and an aging arsenal ...

With digital health, anyone with a wrist wearable or smartphone could potentially contribute in the largest studies ever attempted by ...

A paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens described how they synthetically engineered mosquitoes to stop the spread of dengue fever, a viral tropical disease ...

First envisioned in 2016 through a series of discussions on the “grand challenges” in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, the International ...

With just their input cables, human neurons can perform difficult logic calculations previously only seen in entire neural networks. To ...

Here are two stories in biotech we’re keeping our eyes on. Although successes likely won’t come to fruition this year ...

I rarely use the words transformative or breakthrough for neuroscience findings. The brain is complex, noisy, chaotic, and often unpredictable ...

CRISPR may one day wipe out devastating genetic diseases throughout entire family lines, or even the human race. But to ...

Co-founder and CEO [of Insilico Medicine] Alex Zhavoronkov said he believes there is no greater goal in healthcare today—or, really, ...

It’s difficult to talk about genetic selection without the umbrella of morality or ethics. Yet like all scientific advancements, it ...

While they’re still struggling to gain commercial traction, the latest VR headsets are able to transport people to impressive virtual ...