Health

A person wearing blue gloves operates a piece of scientific equipment, handling small yellow cubes that are immersed in a cryogenic container.
Fertility
The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF
A look back at the history of infertility treatments and ahead to the tech that could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
Kristin Houser
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Drugs
The exciting research that may cure Parkinson’s 
GeneCode is developing a drug it hopes won’t just alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms but also protect and restore patient’s neural health.
Kevin Dickinson
A child sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, holding and looking intently at a tablet, as if testing the Goldilocks hypothesis for the perfect screen brightness.
Mental Health
Beyond screen time: Rethinking kids’ tech use with the “Goldilocks hypothesis”
The “Goldilocks hypothesis” asks parents to think beyond screen time and consider the habits that teens build around technology use.
Kevin Dickinson
A picture of a boy playing a drum and reactive neurons in the brain.
Neurodiversity
How music therapy benefits the autistic brain
Jaimee Bell
A diagram of DNA strands overlaid with calculations from the AI mentioned in the article.
Cancer
New AI predicts cancer survival using epigenetics
Kevin Dickinson
a woman getting a mammogram while another one performs the screening
Cancer
Walmart now has mammograms, analyzed with AI
Kristin Houser
A collage of people's faces and genome sequences.
Genetics
Untangling the genetics that underlie our facial features
Bob Holmes | Knowable Magazine
collage featuring orchids, a fetus in a womb, and genome readings
Fertility
Startup can now screen IVF embryos for 1000+ diseases
Kristin Houser
A woman working in a medical lab
Vaccines
World’s first “self-amplifying” vaccine approved in Japan
Kristin Houser
A group of people are silhouetted against a blue sky.
Psychology
Your “circadian rhythm peak” can affect your mental performance
Cindi May
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Coronavirus
HIV drug shows promise against COVID-19 and MERS
Kristin Houser
A person is lighting lots of candles on a birthday cake.
Aging
Why do women live longer than men?
Saloni Dattani and Lucas Rodés-Guirao | Our World in Data
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Medicine
Experimental implant could end the need for insulin injections
Kristin Houser