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Two more HIV patients beat the virus — helping scientists researching a permanent cure
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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?
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
Across the Florida Keys... newly hatched mosquitoes are swarming from damp flowerpots, waterlogged spare tires, trash cans and drainage ditches ...
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
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
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
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
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
Cancer is appropriately perceived as a disease of risk: genetic or heritable risks, lifestyle risks and the unknown risks of ...