The Body
The Pain Gap
After decades of assuming that pain processing is equivalent in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an “ouch!”
Features
Policy & Ethics
A Question of Control
Clinical-trial participants and their carers are gaining influence over how experiments are run. As they take to social media, that could make things messy for the science
Biology
The Protein Slayers
An emerging class of drug could send some of medicine’s most troublesome protein targets to the cellular rubbish bin
Departments
- From the Editor
Win-Wins Everywhere
- News
How Drug Company Ads Downplay Risks
Should We Kill Off Disease-Causing Pests? Not So Fast
A Genetic Basis for Insomnia Emerges from the Twilight
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
Anti-Aging Discovery Could Lead to Restorative Skin Treatments
A New Way to Detect Parkinson’s—by Smell
- Opinion
Opting Out of Vaccines Should Opt You Out of American Society
Loneliness Is Harmful to Our Nation's Health
How Well Can a Genetic Test Predict Your Future Health?
A New Way to Fight Cancer
