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
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CRISPR
Revamped CRISPR restores vision in blind mice
Kristin Houser
A black man pouring liquid into a keg in a brewery.
Food
Tastier nonalchoholic beer is here – will you drink it?
Clark Da​nderson
A close up of blue balls.
Medicine
Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
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Brain
Psychoactive drug ibogaine helps veterans with TBI
Kristin Houser
Plants in glass jars on a shelf in a lab.
Biology
Bioengineers design a new plant to purify air faster than nature
Kevin Dickinson
An image of a brain with blue and green lights.
Memory
How a mutation in microglia elevates Alzheimer’s risk
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | MIT News
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Medicine
Superbug-killing antibiotic is now in human trials
Kristin Houser
A bowl of soup with a thermometer on it.
Food
Nutrition professor answers: Does chicken soup really help when you’re sick?
Colby Teeman
a baby in a hospital bed
Surgery
Toddler thriving after world’s first partial heart transplant
Kristin Houser
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Memory
How does Alzheimer’s disease erode memory? New findings on risk gene offer insights
Mo Costandi