Lisa Jarvis
Viewpoint: ‘Sending science backward’—MAGA fuels a culture war against life-saving mRNA vaccines
US health agency leadership and policymakers seem intent on undermining trust in mRNA, the technology that saved millions of lives ...
Wegovy users aren’t just eating less — they’re drinking and smoking less too
The anecdotes are increasingly impossible to ignore: Many people taking the new obesity drugs, whether Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy or Eli ...
Number of illnesses that weight loss drug Wegovy likely could treat are growing
Research is accumulating showing that GLP-1s can protect against cardiovascular problems — even when weight-loss is minimal ...
Companies race to achieve pig kidney transplants. Who will be first to convince the world their technologies are safest?
Xenotransplantation, the futuristic sounding field of animal-to-human organ transplants, is suddenly a lot closer to reality. The first two gene-edited ...
Does TikTok and other social media adversely affect kids’ brains? We still don’t know
The relative newness of platforms like Snapchat and TikTok means little research is available about their long-term effects on teen ...
Cancer cure using mRNA technology? Progress in treating melanoma inching forward but challenges are large
A small study shows promise in deploying mRNA technology against melanoma, but fighting tumors is vastly more complex than tackling ...
‘Synthetic lethality’ targets cancer cells by damaging vulnerable DNA
By designing small molecules that can “turn off” kinase enzymes stuck in the “on” position, they have managed to ward ...