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“Rational vaccinology” could lead to effective cancer vaccines.

Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.

“The amount of interest is enormous,” says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. “People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this.”

The president identified developing MCED tests as a priority for the Cancer Moonshot.

Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.

This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.

Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.

Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.

Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.

Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.

The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.

“I think it’s about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages.”

Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.

There may be a faster, less-painful way to use radiation against cancer.

As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.

“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”

In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.

Certain cancers are striking earlier than they used to.

Living longer is only half the equation. Here’s how to stay healthier for more of those years.

Just 12% of Americans account for half the country’s total beef consumption.

John Green opens up about his struggle to remain hopeful while writing about suffering and injustice.

You are much more likely to die in a car crash than from terrorism. Yet, philosopher Eran Fish says fearing terrorism more is justified.

Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.

What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?

The New York Times bestselling author and founder of Going With Grace shares how close confrontations with death inspired her to change her life.

The hangover “cures” on the market don’t work. A new hydrogel does.

A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.

Fluphenazine, once used to treat schizophrenia, is capable of blocking a compound connected to chronic pain.

We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.