Stories by Melinda Wenner

Sex is Better for Women in Love

Reward areas in the brain are tied to orgasm quality

Disease for Darwinism

More kids, less cancer: Huntington's may confer survival benefits

Regaining Lost Luster

New developments and clinical trials breathe life back into gene therapy

Humans Carry More Bacterial Cells than Human Ones

You are more bacteria than you are you, according to the latest body census

Who Said Quitters Never Win?

If at first you don't succeed, quit—for your future health

Scared Off Silicone

Liability fears trump science for ulcer-beating injectable silicone

All in the Family

Birth order affects our personality and health

Forgetting to Remember

Forgetting is a vital brain function

Fact or Fiction?: Pets Protect Children against Allergies

Pets may or may not help fend off developing allergies but they will help keep the house from being antiseptically clean.

Common Link, Common Cure?

Amyloid diseases share the same molecular substructure

Everyone Agrees

An oft-heard opinion seems popular even if it comes from only one person

Mothers' Little Criminals

Exercising Generates New Brain Cells

Something, Um, Unexpected

On the Other Hand