Two more HIV patients beat the virus — helping scientists researching a permanent cure

Two more HIV patients beat the virus — helping scientists researching a permanent cure

Betsy McKay | Wall Street Journal | 
A 66-year-old man in Southern California and a woman in her 70s in Spain are the latest in a small ...
‘Smell cyborgs’ are replacing dogs that sniff out cancer or explosives

‘Smell cyborgs’ are replacing dogs that sniff out cancer or explosives

Daniela Hernandez | Wall Street Journal | 
We live in a world of odors—chemical signals that contain valuable data about our health, the environment and even personal ...
‘It’s a slog’: Cure or treatment for Alzheimer’s proving elusive, and we don’t know why

‘It’s a slog’: Cure or treatment for Alzheimer’s proving elusive, and we don’t know why

Andy Kessler | Wall Street Journal | 
We see headlines that declare a “Cure Breakthrough” and “Reversing Dementia in Mice,” but still, if you get sick, there ...
Facing human donor organ shortage, US poised to allow pig organ transplant trials

Facing human donor organ shortage, US poised to allow pig organ transplant trials

The Food and Drug Administration is devising plans to allow clinical trials testing the transplantation of pig organs into humans, ...
Should an AI chatbot robot have rights? A now-suspended Google engineer thinks so

Should an AI chatbot robot have rights? A now-suspended Google engineer thinks so

Patrick Thomas | Wall Street Journal | 
Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he ...
Viewpoint: Food security crisis underscores why it’s time to get over wrong-headed fears over genetically modified wheat, says North Dakota state senator

Viewpoint: Food security crisis underscores why it’s time to get over wrong-headed fears over genetically modified wheat, says North Dakota state senator

Terry Wanzek | Wall Street Journal | 
Three decades ago, a good year meant 90 bushels of corn and 25 bushels of soybeans an acre. This season ...
Genetic genie is out of the bottle: Distant relatives you don’t know likely have had their DNA mapped, so your lineage is circulating somewhere

Genetic genie is out of the bottle: Distant relatives you don’t know likely have had their DNA mapped, so your lineage is circulating somewhere

Josh Zumbrun | Wall Street Journal | 
It is far too late to completely protect your genetic privacy via personal abstention. A brief exploration into the mathematics ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic farming folly’ — Bjorn Lomborg says Ukraine war has exposed Europe’s ‘self-indulgent obsession’ with low-yield, unsustainable farming

Viewpoint: ‘Organic farming folly’ — Bjorn Lomborg says Ukraine war has exposed Europe’s ‘self-indulgent obsession’ with low-yield, unsustainable farming

Bjørn Lomborg | Wall Street Journal | 
As food prices skyrocket and the [Ukraine] conflict threatens a global food crisis, we need to face another unpopular reality: ...
FDA ban on sperm donations by gay and bisexual men is loosening

FDA ban on sperm donations by gay and bisexual men is loosening

After years of public criticism, the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 relaxed its rules regarding blood donation by men ...
Viewpoint: Is China overreacting to mild COVID variant outbreak?

Viewpoint: Is China overreacting to mild COVID variant outbreak?

Holman Jenkins | Wall Street Journal | 
What exactly is the function of China’s zero-Covid lockdowns, which individually and cumulatively now are far bigger than even the ...
Why are middle-aged women 2 ½ times more likely to take antidepressants than men?

Why are middle-aged women 2 ½ times more likely to take antidepressants than men?

Andrea Petersen | Wall Street Journal | 
About one in five women ages 40 to 59 and nearly one in four women ages 60 and over used ...
‘COVID booster strategy is not sustainable’: FDA pushes for long-term plans

‘COVID booster strategy is not sustainable’: FDA pushes for long-term plans

A top U.S. health regulator said that asking people to frequently get Covid-19 boosters wasn’t sustainable because of vaccine fatigue and that ...
Viewpoint: FDA appears to be steamrolling own experts in authorizing fourth COVID vaccine dose

Viewpoint: FDA appears to be steamrolling own experts in authorizing fourth COVID vaccine dose

Marty Makary | Wall Street Journal | 
The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized Americans 50 and over to get a fourth Covid vaccine dose. Some ...
Video: Here's the story of the pioneering purple nutrition-enhanced genetically modified tomato—and why GMOs are the future of food

Video: Here’s the story of the pioneering purple nutrition-enhanced genetically modified tomato—and why GMOs are the future of food

Plant geneticist Cathie Martin spent years working with snapdragon genes to create a purple tomato that produces more antioxidant compounds ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic’? ‘Regenerative’? On labels they are little more than buzzwords. Here’s why

Viewpoint: ‘Organic’? ‘Regenerative’? On labels they are little more than buzzwords. Here’s why

Ben Giles | Wall Street Journal | 
Natural, sustainable, organic: yesterday’s news. When it comes to virtuous eating, “regenerative” is the buzzword du jour. But what, exactly, ...
Sex differences in responding to baby scent: Males more aggressive, women the opposite

Sex differences in responding to baby scent: Males more aggressive, women the opposite

Susan Pinker | Wall Street Journal | 
Imagine there was an odorless substance that made men less aggressive when they inhaled it but had the opposite effect ...
Baseball’s COVID problem: Unvaccinated players won’t be allowed in Canada to play against Toronto Blue Jays

Baseball’s COVID problem: Unvaccinated players won’t be allowed in Canada to play against Toronto Blue Jays

Jared Diamond | Wall Street Journal | 
Major League Baseball players have been more reluctant to take the Covid-19 vaccine than their counterparts in any of the ...
More disappointing news on ivermectin: Largest trial to date shows no reduction in COVID hospitalizations

More disappointing news on ivermectin: Largest trial to date shows no reduction in COVID hospitalizations

Sarah Toy | Wall Street Journal | 
Researchers testing repurposed drugs against Covid-19 found that ivermectin didn’t reduce hospital admissions, in the largest trial yet of the ...
Ukraine conflict spurs food concerns in China, renews push to embrace crop genetic engineering and other yield boosting tools

Ukraine conflict spurs food concerns in China, renews push to embrace crop genetic engineering and other yield boosting tools

Jacky Wong | Wall Street Journal | 
Food security and self-sufficiency have long been high on the agenda of Chinese policy makers. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gives Beijing ...
There’s a nationwide shortage of Black sperm donors. Here’s why

There’s a nationwide shortage of Black sperm donors. Here’s why

There has been a shortage of Black sperm donors and all donors of color for years, industry experts said. The ...
Why is COVID usually less severe in children?

Why is COVID usually less severe in children?

Sarah Toy | Wall Street Journal | 
Although some children do fall seriously ill after coming down with Covid-19, the most have mild symptoms or no symptoms ...
After a decade of public debate and regulatory delays, genetically tweaked mosquitoes released in Florida in hopes to contain Zika and Dengue

After a decade of public debate and regulatory delays, genetically tweaked mosquitoes released in Florida in hopes to contain Zika and Dengue

Robert Lee Hotz | Wall Street Journal | 
Across the Florida Keys... newly hatched mosquitoes are swarming from damp flowerpots, waterlogged spare tires, trash cans and drainage ditches ...
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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 ...
Quest for agelessness: A host of drugs and therapies are under review, but expectations are low

Quest for agelessness: A host of drugs and therapies are under review, but expectations are low

Ron Winslow | Wall Street Journal | 
Will people eventually routinely live—and live healthily—longer? That’s the vision of the burgeoning field of aging research, where scientists are ...
Deported Novak Djokovic likely to face more tournament bans this year as a result of his refusal to get vaccinated

Deported Novak Djokovic likely to face more tournament bans this year as a result of his refusal to get vaccinated

Joshua Robinson | Wall Street Journal | 
When Novak Djokovic boarded a flight from Melbourne, Australia to Dubai on [January 16], he put an end to the ...
‘I really want to piss off the unvaccinated’: Europe cracks down on vaccine hesitant, imposing stricter mandates while lessening Omicron restrictions

‘I really want to piss off the unvaccinated’: Europe cracks down on vaccine hesitant, imposing stricter mandates while lessening Omicron restrictions

Rarely has a European leader spelled out the continent’s Covid-19 strategy as bluntly as French President Emmanuel Macron, who said ...
China regards US search for COVID origins with suspicion — hobbling future pandemic preparedness

China regards US search for COVID origins with suspicion — hobbling future pandemic preparedness

One fallout from the conflict over the origin of the pandemic is less scientific collaboration and more mistrust between two ...
Cancerland? A wider array of cancer pre-screening and hyper-early detection methods are arriving. Here's why that’s problematic

Cancerland? A wider array of cancer pre-screening and hyper-early detection methods are arriving. Here’s why that’s problematic

Cancer is appropriately perceived as a disease of risk: genetic or heritable risks, lifestyle risks and the unknown risks of ...
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