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Controversial new research suggests that COVID-19 has a notable negative impact on male fertility, making it harder to have kids.

Scientists Say That Declining Sperm Count Research Is Nonsense

By Tony Ho Tran

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.

Scientists Gene Edit Mice to Live 23 Percent Longer

By Tony Ho Tran

Anthony Fauci doesn't endorse the lab leak hypothesis, but he does want to know why workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized.

Fauci Wants To Know Why Three Virus Researchers in Wuhan Got Sick

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.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Say Humans Have “Untapped” Limb Regeneration Capability

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the University of Washington plan to launch clinical trials on a breath mint that actually regrows lost tooth enamel.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Say They’ve Created Candy That Heals Tooth Enamel

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials are frustrated by the growing number of US researchers and officials calling for another investigation into how the pandemic began.

China Is Furious That Americans Are Considering the Lab Leak Hypothesis

By Dan Robitzski

Brain computer interface pioneer Miguel Nicolelis says that Elon Musk's Neuralink is all theatre and no substance with underwhelming tech.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscience Pioneer Slams Elon Musk’s Neuralink Claims

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a way to directly image a living mouse brain with a fluorescent microscope without having to conduct invasive surgery.

New Microscope Technique Can Peer Inside a Brain Without Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers concluded that with perfect health, humans could live to anywhere between 120 and 150 years, as detailed in a new study.

Scientists Say This Is the Maximum Human Lifespan

By Victor Tangermann

Biden called on the US intelligence community to redouble its efforts to find out how the coronavirus pandemic actually started.

Biden Orders Spies to Figure Out Whether COVID Leaked From Lab

By Dan Robitzski

The International Society for Stem Cell Research just loosened up decades-old restrictions on how long scientists can keep lab-grown embryos alive.

New Regulations Let Scientists Keep Lab-Grown Human Embryos Alive for Longer

By Dan Robitzski

As COVID-19 vaccine supply outweights domestic demand in the US, travelers are coming to the country to grab some of the extras.

Wealthy Travelers Are Flocking to America for Precious COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

India's Health Ministry has declared a mucormycosis epidemic after the country reported over 11,000 cases of the fungal infection.

India Reports More Than 11,000 Cases of Brain-Eating Fungus

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson made the unusual implication that China released the coronavirus from a lab as an act of aggression.

The New Head of NASA Says COVID May Have Leaked From a Lab

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy partially restored a blind man's vision by programming his cells to produce the light-sensitive protein found in algae.

Doctors Restored a Blind Man’s Vision by Gene-Hacking His Retina Cells

By Dan Robitzski

As the fertility rate drops in most areas around the world, countries are trying to find new ways to adapt to an increasingly-elderly population.

Population Decline Is Turning Earth Into a Ghost Town, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-disclosed intelligence report reveals that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized right before the pandemic began.

Wuhan Lab Workers Were Hospitalized Right Before the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Under extreme, rare circumstances, taking a plane trip could expose you to harmful levels of cosmic radiation given off by violent space weather.

Passenger Jets May Get Blasted by Dangerous Radiation, Scientists Warn

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a way to significantly reduce the levels of "bad" cholesterol in a monkey's bloodstream for ten months with a single CRISPR injection

Scientists Gene-Hacked Monkeys to Fix Their Cholesterol

By Dan Robitzski

A cache of horrifying emails show that during the height of the opioid crisis, pharmaceutical execs were hard at work mocking rural Americans.

Pharma Execs Mocked Rural Opioid Addiction in Newly-Released Emails

By Jon Christian

Cases of the brain-eating "black fungus" found in COVID-19 survivors and patients in India are now popping up in Pakistan as well.

Deadly Brain-Eating Fungus Outbreak Spreads Beyond India

By Dan Robitzski

Officials in India have found dozens of dead bodies floating in the Ganges River over the past few days, likely a sign of its ongoing coronavirus surge.

Dozens of Bodies Found in Indian River

By Dan Robitzski

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.

Small Country Claims to Have Vaccinated 108 Percent of Population

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy for SCID, also known as "bubble baby" disease, uses HIV to deliver healthy genes that replace mutated ones.

Scientists Turned HIV Into a Life-Saving Gene Therapy

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors in India are battling a surprise wave of "black fungus" infections in coronavirus survivor's eyes, lungs, and brains.

Doctors Alarmed by Outbreak of “Black Fungus” That Infects Patients’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

A doctor from a COVID task force to Brazil compared the country's horrible pandemic response to a "biological Fukushima."

Doctor: Brazil’s Horrible COVID Response Is a “Biological Fukushima”

By Dan Robitzski

Exposure to air pollution seems to cause short-term cognitive defecits in older white men, according to an alarming new study.

Neuroscience and Brain

Something Is Frizzling Up the Brains of Old White Guys

By Dan Robitzski

As the pandemic begins its 15th official year, doctors are seeing severe cancer cases that went ignored for too long for one reason or another.

Severe Cancer Is on the Rise

By Dan Robitzski

An antimasker attacked two Asian women in New York City on Sunday, hitting one in the head with a hammer for refusing to remove her mask.

Woman Brutally Attacked With Hammer for Wearing Mask

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious biotech startup with George Church on its board says it dodged regulatory oversight to give dementia patients an anti-aging gene therapy.

Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Addiction researcher Carl Hart believes that heroin is completely safe to do. His upcoming book details his own recreational heroin use.

Addiction Researcher Says It’s Okay to Do a Little Heroin, as a Treat

By Tony Ho Tran

At least 20 ventilated coronavirus patients died after an Indian hospital ran out of the oxygen it needed to support them.

Indian Police Accused of Taking Dying Mother’s Oxygen for “VIP”

By Tony Ho Tran

A week after spreading dangerous medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, Joe Rogan kind of dialed it back and clarified his statement.

Joe Rogan Explains Anti-Vax Comments: “I’m Not a Doctor, I’m a F*cking Moron”

By Dan Robitzski

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COVID Is Killing So Many People in India That They’re Burning Bodies in Parking Lots

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, scientists announced that they'd successfully embedded human stem cells into monkey embryos. Now bioethicists have some concerns.

Scientists Alarmed by Lab-Grown Human-Animal Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a new powered exoskeleton that can actually be controlled by the wearer's neural signals, allowing more free-form movements.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Hook Neural Interface to Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

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

RX and Medicine

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

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists in Texas found a new coronavirus variant, BV-1, that seems to be similar to the highly-infectious strain from the UK.

Meet BV-1, the Newest COVID Variant To Be Terrified Of

By Dan Robitzski

At least 20 ventilated coronavirus patients died after an Indian hospital ran out of the oxygen it needed to support them.

Oxygen Failure Kills 22 in COVID Treatment Ward

By Dan Robitzski

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.

Pfizer CEO Says You’ll “Likely” Need a Third Dose of COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that smoking weed can significantly impair people's vision but that only a small percentage of people acknowledge that fact while high.

Weed Absolutely Wrecks Your Vision, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist who has long suggested that the coronavirus could have accidentally leaked from a research lab, maintains that the idea is worth investigating.

Harvard/MIT Researcher: COVID Definitely Could Have Leaked From a Lab

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA and CDC have called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout to further investigate blood clot risk.

CDC Says Don’t Take J&J Vaccine While We Figure Out Clotting Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.

Neuroscience and Brain

The Stuff Beer Cans Are Made From Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that CRISPR gene-editing tools cause unintended changes to DNA in a shockingly-high number of experiments.

CRISPR Has a Problem: It Mangles DNA It Wasn’t Supposed to Touch

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink recently showcased a macaque playing "Pong" with its mind. Researchers in the field are unimpressed.

Neuroscience and Brain

Famed Neurobiologist Slams Neuralink’s Monkey Demo

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in Sydney have identified a new gene in zebrafish that could allow human hearts to repair themselves following a heart attack.

Gene Hack Could Heal Heart After Heart Attack

By Victor Tangermann

Experts say that ethical concerns over growing brain-like neural organoids or implanting human brain cells into animals are unfounded, at least for now.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists: Don’t Worry, Adding Human Brain Cells to Animal Brains Is Fine

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that major depressive disorder might actually make people's bodies start to age faster than they should be at a cellular level.

Health & Medicine

Yet Another Reason To Treat Depression: It Could Literally Age You

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing body of evidence that the chemical TCE, banned in several countries but common in the US, is causing a huge wave of Parkinson's Disease.

A Common Chemical Is Causing a Huge Wave of Parkinson’s Disease, Doctor Warns

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.

Scientists Claim to Discover “Unexpected” New Viruses in Wuhan

By Dan Robitzski

Roughly one in three coronavirus patients are diagnosed with some sort of neurological or psychological condition within six months, according to a study.

A Third of COVID Patients Are Diagnosed With “Brain Disease”

By Dan Robitzski

In a massive review of existing mouse research, scientists linked a high-sugar, high-fat diet to cognitive impairments later in life.

Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.

Scientists About to Start Testing a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine in Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.

People Are Experiencing a “Contact High” at Vaccination Centers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.

Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist working on an artifiical placenta that provides oxygen for babies born prematurely says it may be ready for human experiments in five years.

Prosthetics and Devices

Artificial Placentas for Human Babies Coming Within Five Years, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

World Health Organization investigators say it's "extremely unlikely" that the coronavirus leaked from a lab, but the WHO chief isn't satisfied.

WHO Head: We’re Still Not Sure if COVID Escaped From a Lab

By Dan Robitzski

COVID case numbers in the US have started to slowly creep upward, and that has CDC Director Rochelle Walensky deeply scared.

CDC Director Says She’s “Scared,” Begs Americans to Take COVID Seriously

By Dan Robitzski

Chief COVID Advisor: Trump Could Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths

Chief COVID Advisor: Trump Could Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths

By Tony Ho Tran

A cross-sectional study of about 3,000 young men, their diets, and sperm have researchers thinking more about the adage "you are what you eat."

Humans Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Procreate, Scientist Warns

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a new report, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is 93 percent effective after just one out of two doses.

White House Considering Temporary Lift On COVID Vaccine IP Protections

By Tony Ho Tran

Here's what people want to do with their time as soon as they're fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can partially reenter society.

After Their Second Vaccine Kicks In, This Is How People Are Reentering Society

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious disease outbreak in Sokoto, Nigeria killed one student and infected 30 others. The government still doesn't know what it was.

Mystery Disease Outbreak Kills Girl in Nigeria, Sickens Dozens More

By Dan Robitzski