Health

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

Overlay of hands and abstract patterns in purple and blue tones, symbolizing hope for Parkinson's cure.

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

Healthcare

We may have found a drug to curb meth addiction

Meth addiction is on the rise, so this team of researchers is working to develop the first FDA-approved medication to treat the use disorder.

Teresa Carey

Drugs

New promise for psychedelics and depression

New findings on psychedelics and depression show the benefits of microdosing, and could present more effective treatment options.

Kurt Hackbarth

Series| Dope Science

Cannabis as a natural treatment for autism

7:07

When typical medications simply aren’t doing enough to manage their children’s symptoms, mothers like Jenni Mai are turning to medical marijuana. But with current regulations, parents are having to become pharmacists for their own families, and some are even moving across the country so they can legally access cannabis.

Using computation psychiatry to study the brain

Neuroscience

Diving deep into the brain to measure neurotransmitters

Researchers are taking the first measurements of neurotransmitters in active human brains, using computational psychiatry to understand how the mind works.

B. David Zarley

Drugs

Marijuana and autism: Removing the stigma

Research is beginning to prove the hopeful connection between marijuana and autism treatment for symptom relief. Here is one man’s inspiring story.

Kurt Hackbarth

Robotics

What's special about cancer-killing nanobots? precision.

These tiny, robotic machines can deliver drugs directly to infected cells, and they're changing the future of medicine.

Teresa Carey

Fertility

For childhood cancer survivors, adult fertility isn’t a given

Experimental procedures offer beta solutions for girls, and more time to figure it out for boys.

Julia Sklar

Series| Future of Fertility

IVG: making babies from skin cells

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The designer babies of the future are closer than we think. With a new process called IVG, a person could essentially choose their baby’s traits, and same-sex couples could make a biological family.

Addiction

Addict-turned-neuroscientist on addiction and the brain

In our interview with neuroscientist Judith Grisel, she discusses the state of research on addiction and the brain, as well as society’s view of addicts.

B. David Zarley

Scientists are using AI to improve breast cancer screening

Computer scientists at MIT created a new algorithm for breast cancer screening to predict whether a patient will develop the disease in the next 5 years.

B. David Zarley

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