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By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.
Living longer is only half the equation. Here’s how to stay healthier for more of those years.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
“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?”
Today’s pseudoscience-ridden wellness industry owes a great debt to its forefathers.
Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
The promising new treatment builds on research that went into developing COVID vaccines.
In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.
The integration of artificial intelligence into public health could have revolutionary implications for the global south—if only it can get online.
They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?
Could studying the Oriental hornet lead to a treatment for people with alcohol use disorder?
The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.
Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.
“The field is endless, but my life is limited, as are all of ours. But you do what you can with your time,” says CSO Mart Saarma.
Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily in freak accidents or deadly invasions, or after a showy display.
Differences in certain avian and mammalian proteins explain why avian influenza doesn’t (typically) infect humans.
“Having more stem cell activity is good for regeneration, but too much of a good thing over time can have less favorable consequences.”
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.
“Fasting…should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while.”
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.
The hangover “cures” on the market don’t work. A new hydrogel does.
GLP-1 agonists may be able to treat addiction, prevent Alzheimer’s, and more.
“If we could target those circuits very precisely, then there’s great potential to block the inflammation response for many diseases.”
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?
Poor research can be worse than no research at all.