In China, Mental Health Care Goes Virtual
Why are VR companies launching their mental health care programs in the nation?
Medical & Biotech2092 articles archived since 1845
A New Twist on Artificial Muscles
Several designs could find uses in tiny robots and biomedical devices
DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
Life’s information-storage system is being adapted to handle massive amounts of information
A Special Class of Proteins Offers Promising Targets for Drugs for Cancer and Alzheimer's
New possibilities for treating cancer and other ills
Genomic Surveillance Could Make a Big Difference in the Fight against Malaria
It can flag pathogens long before patients show up in clinics
Russian Biologist Plans More CRISPR-Edited Babies
The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year
FAQ: How Does New Trump Fetal Policy Impact Medical Research?
Changes could endanger promising medical research
Trump Administration Halts Fetal-Tissue Research by Government Scientists
Policy also requires ethics review for any grant applications to the National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue
Congress Revives Ban on Altering the DNA of Human Embryos Used for Pregnancies
Some scientists had called for lifting the ban to allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to evaluate the new technologies
Genetic Mutation in “CRISPR Babies” May Shorten Lifespan
The gene a Chinese scientist attempted to modify in twin girls last year has been associated with premature death
Could the Next Big Information Technology Be ... DNA?
How DNA is used to store—and generate—information at extreme scales
New Pacemaker Harvests Energy from the Heart
A device that converts the heart’s mechanical energy into electrical energy has been successfully tested in pigs
Nobelist: Harness Evolution as a Problem-Solving Algorithm
Frances Arnold, the Caltech scientist who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says evolution can show us how to solve problems of sustainability.
Smartphone App Screens Kids for Ear Problems
Parents can use a digital tool at home to detect fluid behind the eardrum
The Protein Slayers
An emerging class of drug could send some of medicine’s most troublesome protein targets to the cellular rubbish bin
Brain-Controlled Hearing Aids Could Cut through Crowd Noise
A prototype detects whom you are listening to and amplifies only that speaker’s voice; a potential solution to the “cocktail party problem”
Can Knowing Your Genetic Risk Change Your Physiology?
We now have unprecedented amounts of information on our own genetics, thanks to at-home DNA testing kits. But what does all of this information do to us?
Starving Cancer Cells Could Help Treat Glioblastoma
A new study in mice identifies a compound that disrupts the metabolism of certain glioblastoma cells, stopping tumor growth while leaving healthy cells unaffected.
Pausing Fertility: What Will Happen When the Eggs Thaw?
Technical advances are driving a boom in egg freezing, which promises to let women put off pregnancy indefinitely. But will the science live up to the hype?
Can 3-D Printing Produce Lung and Liver Tissue for Transplants?
New technique creates working models—with a little help from grocery-store food coloring
