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
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
a colorized image of nerve regeneration
Medicine
New “multipronged” gene therapy reverses paralysis in mice
Kristin Houser
An ultrasound image of a premature baby.
Biology
Artificial wombs for preemies move closer to human trials
Kristin Houser
A group of marijuana pills on a white surface.
Medicine
Single dose of psilocybin reduces depression in phase 2 trial
Stephen Johnson
Surgeons transplanting the gene-edited pig heart into their patient
Surgery
Gene-edited pig heart gives a dying man a second chance at life (Updated)
Kristin Houser
A new diabetes treatment without injections, showcased with a pair of buttons on a white surface.
Medicine
An implantable device could enable injection-free control of diabetes
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
a grid of colorful scans of the brain of a person with MS
Vaccines
New “inverse vaccines” could be key to curing autoimmune disorders
Kristin Houser
A man lifting a dumbbell to speed up his metabolism.
Sports
Can you speed up your metabolism? And should you?
Nick Fuller
A person in a protective suit is working on a machine related to Covid-19 vaccines.
Coronavirus
Here’s what’s new in the latest COVID-19 boosters
Kristin Houser
A green image of a cell in a dark room.
Brain
Molecule reduces inflammation in Alzheimer’s models
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | MIT News
Four pictures of a man's teeth in different colors depicting tooth decay.
Healthcare
Tooth decay: Mouthwash turns your teeth blue when it’s time to go to the dentist
Peter Rogers