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An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.

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Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years

By Dan Robitzski

A new MIT research center aims to merge humanity with tech like brain-computer interfacesor robotic limbs in order to treat or erase physical disabilities.

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MIT Establishes New Initiative to Meld Humans and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.

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Doctors Are Really Psyched About This New Weight Loss Drug

By Dan Robitzski

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.

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Furious FDA Advisors Resign to Protest Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug That They Say Doesn’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a key difference in the way that axolotls and mammals respond to injuries, potentially revealing a pathway to regenerative medicine.

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Scientists Say Humans Have “Untapped” Limb Regeneration Capability

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a highly effective vaccine for malaria that offers far better protection than any past attempts.

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Scientists Say They’ve Invented a “Highly Effective” Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.

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Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

Biologist Jimmy Bernot willingly infected himself with hookworms as part of a clinical trial on an experimental vaccine for the parasite.

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Biologist Deliberately Infects Himself With 50 Hookworms

By Dan Robitzski

A man's vape exploded in his mouth, burning his mouth and shattering several of his teeth, according to a new case report.

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Vape Explodes, Knocking Out Man’s Teeth

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.

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Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

A new human stem cell derived from fat cells seems to be capable of adapting to and repairing damage in many parts of the body.

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Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.

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Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.

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TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors who perform surgery on their birthday seem to lose more patients than on any other day, according to a new study on emergency operations.

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Surgeons Who Operate on Their Birthday Appear to Kill Way More Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Blocking a single protein called 15-PGDH made old mice much stronger and healthier, as though they had been made younger as a result.

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Blocking a Single Protein Makes Aging Mice Way Stronger and Healthier

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental robot pill grows needles made of sugar when swallowed and inject medications — from inside someone's intestine.

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This “Pill” Sprouts Needles to Inject Medicine Inside Your Body

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical distributor AvKare issued a recall for trazodone and sildenafil after the two were mixed together in the same bottles.

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Packaging Error Mixes Up Antidepressant and Erectile Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.

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Study: Microdosing LSD Improves Mood and Cognition

By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.

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Researchers Built a Powerful Robot Arm to Do Colonoscopies

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.

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MIT Scientists Making Key Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.

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Scientists Claim to Invent Hydrogel That Heals Nerve Damage

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.

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Scientists Just Found Something That Happens Before Alzheimer’s Sets In

By Dan Robitzski

There's finally published research suggesting that the Russian COVID-19 vaccine boosts the immune system, but it's not clear if it will actually help.

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Finally, There’s Evidence That the Russian COVID Vaccine Might Work

By Dan Robitzski

The bodybuilding supplement AKG keeps mouse alive and healthy for longer, so scientists want to see if it does the same for humans.

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This Drug Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

Tiny doses of the psychedelic drug LSD could be an effective painkiller — perhaps as powerful, scientists found, as conventional opioids like morphine.

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Research: LSD Microdoses as Effective as Opioids at Treating Pain

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.

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Doctors Think They Cured a Woman’s HIV by Doing Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

In extremely preliminary research, blood transfusions seem to have reversed some aspects of menopause and allowed women to get pregnant.

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Blood Transfusions Helped a Menopausal Woman Get Pregnant

By Dan Robitzski

Havn Life wants to build a safe, standardized supply chain for psilocybin researchers in Canada in hopes of developing new medical treatments.

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Meet the Woman Who Wants to Sell Psychedelic Drugs to Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy seems to have staved off a young boy's Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suggesting new treatments could be on the way.

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Gene Therapy Lets Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

The experimental COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna Inc begins its phase three clinical trials, the last round of testing before possible approval, on Monday.

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An Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Begins its Phase 3 Trial Today

By Dan Robitzski

A massive new study strongly links high blood iron levels with a longer lifespan, giving hope to new longevity treatments.

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Scientists: Blood Iron Levels Strongly Correlated With Long Lifespan

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists grew stermatogonial stem cells — the precursors to sperm — in a lab for the first time, potentially unlocking new fertility treatments.

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For the First Time, Scientists Grow Human Sperm Stem Cells in Lab

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just authorized an iOS game as a treatment for adolescent ADHD, making it the first ever prescription video game.

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FDA Approves First-Ever Prescription Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

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Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

By Dan Robitzski

Claims that rubber bullets are nonlethal or less lethal than other forms of ammunition don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.

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Researchers: Rubber Bullets Often Cause Death, Permanent Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.

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Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

By Dan Robitzski

Regularly hitting a vape can mess up your mouth's microbiome so much that harmful bacteria start producing a layer of slime.

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Vaping Creates a “Slime Cloak” in Your Mouth, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on people taking psilocybin revealed the biological mechanisms responsible for feelings of bliss associated with the drug.

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Neuroscientists: This Is How Shrooms Break Down Your Sense of Self

By Dan Robitzski

Dark web marketplaces are full of listings for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and debunked or experimental treatments like hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.

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Darknet Marketplaces Are Full of COVID-19 Tests and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Many medicines that help keep us alive originated from toxic substances, which may help explain why researchers might want to recreate toxins.

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Synthesized Pufferfish Neurotoxin Could Be an Opioid Replacement

The U.S. FDA has approved Palforzia, a drug that treats peanut allergies by exposing patients to slowing increasing amounts of peanuts.

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FDA Approves Drug to Save Lives of Kids With Peanut Allergies

By Kristin Houser

A former sales rep recounts the tactics Big Pharma used to convince doctors to prescribe opioids in greater and greater numbers.

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Drug Rep Exposes How Big Pharma Pushed Opioids

By Kristin Houser

A blind man who went through brain surgery to get outfitted with a new bionic eye says he can see some things for the first time in years.

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A Man’s New Bionic Eye Lets Him See After an Accident Blinded Him

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that vaping is just as bad for your heart as is smoking cigarettes. In some ways, vapes are even worse.

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New Research: Vaping Is Incredibly Bad for Your Heart

By Dan Robitzski

One man recently got a double lung transplant because he vaped so much that he caused irreparable damage to his respiratory system.

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This Person Vaped So Much They Needed a Double Lung Transplant

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists used stem cells to grow a living mouse embryo in a lab without using any sperm or egg cells whatsoever for the first time.

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Scientists Grew Living Mouse Embryos Using Only Stem Cells

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor behind the young blood transfusion clinic Ambrosia is back with a mysterious new venture — a transfusion clinic called Ivy Plasma.

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Doctor Behind Failed “Anti-Aging” Blood Clinic Tries Again

By Dan Robitzski

The first large-scale study of a polypill showed the cheap, once-daily medication was able to prevent cardiovascular disease.

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This Cheap “Polypill” Could Reduce Your Risk of a Heart Attack

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found a less intensive, more effective cure against the most dangerous strain of tuberculosis, which infects 10 million every year.

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We Have a Cure for the Deadliest Form of Tuberculosis

By Dan Robitzski

The first trial of a chlamydia vaccine in humans delivered promising results, with researchers already looking forward to the next steps.

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New Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Promise In First Human Trial

By Kristin Houser

Bill Gates believes cancer vaccines are a breakthrough technology poise to change the world, according to a piece he penned for MIT Technology Review.

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Bill Gates: Custom Cancer Vaccines Will Revolutionize Medicine

By Kristin Houser

New medical research shows how to reprogram a mature blood cell into a new kind of stem cell that cell can grow into a neuron and multiply indefinitely.

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Neural Stem Cells Grown From Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Quantum Dots Synthesized From Tea Leaves Could Be The Future Of Nanomedicine

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Quantum Dots Synthesized From Tea Leaves Could Be The Future Of Nanomedicine

By Dan Robitzski

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Tailor-Made Medicine is Pretty Biased

Machine Learning Could Make Manufacturing New Medicines Easier for Synthetic Chemists

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Machine Learning Could Make Manufacturing New Medicines Easier for Synthetic Chemists

Startup Proposes Using Stem Cells From Placentas for Regenerative Medicine

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Startup Proposes Using Stem Cells From Placentas for Regenerative Medicine

By Chelsea Gohd

Your Future Doctor May Not be Human. This Is the Rise of AI in Medicine.

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Your Future Doctor May Not be Human. This Is the Rise of AI in Medicine.

Incredibly Mobile “Minimalist Robot” Could Be the Future of Non-Invasive Medicine

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Incredibly Mobile “Minimalist Robot” Could Be the Future of Non-Invasive Medicine

By Lou Del Bello

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Universal Vaccines Are the Future of Medicine

Antibiotic Algorithm Will Fast-Track the Search for New Medicine

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Antibiotic Algorithm Will Fast-Track the Search for New Medicine

By Chelsea Gohd

Light-Activated Particles Could Lead to a New Age in Medicine

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Light-Activated Particles Could Lead to a New Age in Medicine

Microbots created from algae could help in medical procedures.

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Magnetically-Controlled Organic Microbots Could Change Medicine in the Next Decade

Is Amazon Moving Forward with Plans to Sell Medicine Online?

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Is Amazon Moving Forward with Plans to Sell Medicine Online?

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The Field of Psychedelic Medicine Is in the Midst of a Resurgence