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Scientists Used Protein Switches to Turn T Cells Into Cancer-Fighting Guided Missiles

Edd Gent - August 24, 2020

We Need New, Safer Ways to Treat Pain. Could Electroacupuncture Be One?

Shelly Fan - August 18, 2020

An Indian Company Is Gearing Up to Make Millions of Doses of a $3 Covid-19 Vaccine

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 12, 2020

Science Fiction Explores the Interconnectedness Revealed by the Coronavirus Pandemic

Mayurika Chakravorty - August 9, 2020

Couch Potato No More: How the Benefits of Exercise Transfer to the Brain

Shelly Fan - July 14, 2020

How Fake Viruses Can Help Us Make the Best Possible Vaccines

Shelly Fan - July 7, 2020

Scientists Tap the World’s Most Powerful Computers in the Race to Understand and Stop the Coronavirus

Jeremy Smith - June 4, 2020

Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer With This New Tech

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 3, 2020

Forget Exercise—These Mice Got Ripped With Gene Therapy

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 15, 2020

To Find a Coronavirus Vaccine Faster, Should We Deliberately Infect Thousands of People?

Shelly Fan - May 12, 2020

How to Make Sense of Uncertainty in a Coronavirus World

Tiffany Vora - May 1, 2020

How Will Coronavirus End? It Depends on Our Immunity. Three Possible Outcomes

Shelly Fan - April 28, 2020

This New Smartphone-Based DNA Test Could Help Track Disease in Real Time

Edd Gent - April 27, 2020

Can Genes Explain Why Coronavirus Seriously Sickens Some and Spares Others?

Jason Dorrier - April 15, 2020

This Group of Scientists Is Making Sure We’re Ready for the Next Pandemic

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - April 10, 2020

Blood Is the Next Critical Tool In the Coronavirus Fight. Here’s Why

Shelly Fan - April 7, 2020

Existing Drugs May Work Against Covid-19. AI Is Screening Thousands to Find Out

Shelly Fan - March 31, 2020

What Would Life on Mars Be Like? Millions of Us Are Getting a Taste

Tiffany Vora - March 29, 2020

On the Front Lines of Developing a Test For the Coronavirus

David Pride - March 18, 2020

DeepMind’s Protein Folding AI Is Going After Coronavirus

Shelly Fan - March 17, 2020

Coronavirus: Seven Ways Collective Intelligence Is Tackling the Pandemic

Aleks Berditchevskaia - March 15, 2020

Gene Therapy Is Successfully Treating a Common Form of Inherited Blindness

Shelly Fan - March 3, 2020

AI Just Discovered a New Antibiotic to Kill the World’s Nastiest Bacteria

Jason Dorrier - February 23, 2020

3D Printing of Body Parts Is Coming Fast—but Regulations Are Not Ready

Dinusha Mendis - February 21, 2020

How AI Helped Predict the Coronavirus Outbreak Before It Happened

Marc Prosser - February 5, 2020

Verily’s Bold New Project Aims to Predict Depression Using Your Phone

Shelly Fan - February 4, 2020

Gene Therapy for Sickle-Cell Anemia Looks Promising—but It’s Riddled With Controversy

Shelly Fan - December 17, 2019

Can You Hack Your Sleep in 28 Days?

Edd Gent - November 21, 2019

How Scientists Grew Perfect New Lungs in Mouse Embryos

Shelly Fan - November 20, 2019

How an AI Startup Designed a Drug Candidate in Just 46 Days

Edd Gent - September 9, 2019

How Much Is AI Really Moving the Needle on Health?

Shelly Fan - August 26, 2019

This CAR-T Tag-Team Could Wipe Out HIV for Good

Shelly Fan - August 15, 2019

Cancer-Killing Living Drug Is Made Safer With a Simple Off Switch

Shelly Fan - July 10, 2019

This Lab-Grown Patch Could Repair Your Heart After a Heart Attack

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 7, 2019

New Findings From the Human Microbiome Project

Shelly Fan - June 6, 2019

How Two Paralyzed Patients Walked Again Without Surgery

Shelly Fan - May 29, 2019

New Progress in Stem-Cell-Free Regenerative Medicine

Shelly Fan - May 23, 2019

A Birth Control Pill for Men Is One Step Closer

Scott Simonsen - April 2, 2019

Extending Human Longevity With Regenerative Medicine

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - March 28, 2019

How Three People With HIV Became Virus-Free Without HIV Drugs

Shelly Fan - March 10, 2019

This AI Can Tell Your Age by Analyzing Your Gut Microbiome

Marc Prosser - February 5, 2019

To Extend Our Longevity, First We Must Understand Why We Age

Peter H. Diamandis, MD - January 24, 2019

5 Major Drug Breakthroughs That Happened in 2018

Shelly Fan - January 4, 2019

First Successful Pig-to-Baboon Heart Transplant Heralds Human Trials

Shelly Fan - December 17, 2018

A Smartphone App and 3D Printed Attachment for HIV Detection

David Pring-Mill - December 7, 2018

Science vs. Superbugs: A New Wave of Solutions Is On the Way

Peter Rejcek - October 24, 2018

‘Happiness Tech’ Is On the Rise. Is It Working?

Raya Bidshahri - September 2, 2018

Amazing New Brain Map of Every Synapse Points to the Roots of Thinking

Shelly Fan - August 14, 2018

CAR-T May Be a Silver Bullet Against Cancer—and Here’s What Else It Can Do

Shelly Fan - August 7, 2018

The Many Ways Virtual Reality Promises to Improve How We Care for Our Health

Yana Yelina - July 25, 2018

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