
Building a Brain Implant for Smell
Researchers are developing a device that could restore olfaction, much as a cochlear implant restores hearing

Building a Brain Implant for Smell
Researchers are developing a device that could restore olfaction, much as a cochlear implant restores hearing

Machines That Read Your Brain Waves
How to make sure noninvasive neural interfaces stay that way


A Drug Shows an Astonishing Ability to Regenerate Damaged Hearts and Other Body Parts
A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs damaged by illness and injury

AI-Based App Could Screen for Cervical Cancer
An algorithm that can diagnose the disease from photographs would be especially useful in developing countries

The Case of a Woman Who Feels Almost No Pain Leads Scientists to a New Gene Mutation
The discovery may have implications for treating acute and chronic pain

World’s First HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant with Living Donor Performed Successfully
The ability to use organs from living HIV-positive individuals could increase the supply available for transplant

New Strategies Take on the Worst Cancer--Glioblastoma
Among the various malignancies that can afflict the human body, few bring with them the dour prognoses of brain tumors

First Baby Monkey Born Using Sperm from Frozen Testicles
Researchers hope that the procedure could be used to restore fertility to human boys undergoing cancer treatment

A Chemical World

As Scientists Probe the Mystery of How Newborns Develop Immunity, Order Rises from the Chaos
New studies take the most comprehensive look yet into immune system activity immediately after birth

How Gene Therapy Can Reverse a Form of Congenital Blindness
If we had known in advance of the challenges that were to come, we might never have started the research

A Second Person Has Been Effectively "Cured" of HIV
10 years after the so-called “Berlin Patient,” a second man has been put into sustained remission