Wall Street Journal
Mano a mano: Expect a knockdown fight between HHS secretary RFK, Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins if they both get approved
When Donald Trump announced his pick to lead the Agriculture Department last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s team was blindsided, according to ...
‘Intelligence in a dish’: ‘Brain organoids’ grown on petri dishes show signs of developing eyes
The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of ...
Biological resilience: How aging disrupts our ability to bounce back from stress
Feel like it takes longer to recover from everything these days—whether it’s an injury or poor sleep? That’s the reality of ...
From edible microrobot teeth cleaners to regenerating your teeth with a drug, the future of dentistry is poised to change
Imagine a world where you could regenerate a missing tooth with a single drug, and microrobots clean your teeth every ...
Scientists racing to save disease-threatened bananas see potential in genetically modified varieties
Chiquita Brands International [has] bred a new banana called the Yelloway 1 that is resistant to [Tropical Race 4 disease] ...
Are vaccines the future of cancer prevention?
Researchers are making progress toward vaccines that train healthy people’s immune systems to eliminate signs of cancer before it develops ...
Elon Musk is getting jittery about meeting his self-imposed deadline for human flights to Mars
Elon Musk sounds like a man grappling with the reality that there are only so many trips left for him ...
Increased muscle tone and better sex! Tempting but some men end up with budding breasts, blood clots and infertility. Here’s what’s really going in some testosterone clinics
Prescriptions for testosterone cypionate, a generic form commonly sold by the clinics, have increased by eight times since 2010. When ...
Cloudy with a chance of AI? How weather forecasters are more accurately predicting tropical storms
In May, Microsoft released a forecast tool called Aurora that produces five-day global air- pollution predictions and 10-day weather forecasts ...
Calorie counting? AI could help, bite by bite
[R]esearchers in Canada are leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze food bite-by-bite. All diners have to do is record themselves eating ...
Ozempic and sex: An unexpected benefit of GLP-1 weight loss drugs?
Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound have transformed the lives of millions of people, helping them control their appetites and lose ...
Guilt-free dessert? Enzyme-boosted chocolate bar soaks up sugar in the gut — turning it into fiber instead
A guilt-free chocolate bar, full of sugar, could someday land at a supermarket near you ...
Understanding stress: Hormone cortisol has a dicey reputation — but is it damaging as many people think?
Endocrinologists say people don’t need to be concerned about their cortisol levels or so-called “adrenal fatigue,” ...
This ‘superstar’ genetic analyst cracked criminal cases and locked people up for three decades. New findings reveal she may have fudged the data
For nearly three decades, Yvonne “Missy” Woods was Colorado’s star forensic scientist, relied on by police and prosecutors to test ...
Is aging a ‘treatable disease’? Harvard geneticist faces accusations of ‘snake oil salesman’ as expert scientists refute claims
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair, who has said his “biological age” is roughly a decade younger than his actual one, has ...
China and social media disinformation: State-affiliated accounts leverage artificial intelligence to exploit racial tensions in the US, Taiwan and elsewhere
Online actors linked to the Chinese government are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence to target voters in the U.S ...
‘Go for it’: Dozens of people on the brink of death put faith in controversial ‘in vivo’ CRISPR gene therapy treatments
Regulators last year approved the world’s first medicine using Crispr, the Nobel Prize-winning tool for modifying genes ...
Earlier detection and new therapies stir quiet transformation in Alzheimer’s treatment
Advances in early detection and management of the disease have changed the way patients view an Alzheimer’s diagnosis ...
Multiple companies scrambling to develop brain-computer interfaces that restore movement for severely injured patients
Device was temporarily implanted in a patient, moving it one step closer toward becoming a standard of care ...
First Neuralink brain implant patient plays computer chess with his mind
Elon Musk’s Neuralink introduced the first patient to receive its brain-computer implant can now move a computer cursor using the ...
Study: What does ‘ultra-processed’ food do to our brains and capacity to learn?
Ultra-processed foods may not only affect our bodies, but our brains too. New research suggests links between ultra-processed foods—such as chips, many ...
How do people uniquely respond to different diets? 500 Americans will be living at scientific facilities for six weeks to find out
Kevin Elizabeth, a 28-year-old tech worker, is one of 500 Americans who will be living at scientific facilities around the ...
A blood test test can detect cancers well before symptoms show up. Don’t expect private insurers or the government to cover costs anytime soon
Many companies are developing blood tests that can detect cancer signals before symptoms occur, and Grail’s is the most advanced ...
Unraveling the mystery of why cancer is soaring among people under 50
Researchers are trying to figure out what is making more young adults sick, and how to identify those at high ...
After demoting a scientist and cutting her pay, University of Pennsylvania makes millions from her mRNA breakthroughs
School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work ...
Over a million frozen embryos are left in limbo. Should they be donated?
Higher IVF success rates mean more embryos are being left unused—and more families wrestling with questions about what to do ...
Early Alzheimer’s diagnosis: Scanning the eye with AI tools could help us catch dementia 20 years before symptoms show up
RetiSpec developed an artificial-intelligence algorithm that it says can analyze results from an eye scanner to detect signs of Alzheimer’s ...
Drug-free pain management: Retraining the brain with ‘pain reprocessing therapy’ hopes to offer alternative to opioids
“Pain reprocessing therapy,” tries to train the brain not to send false pain signals. Some early results are promising ...
