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

RX and Medicine

Meet the Woman Who Wants to Sell Psychedelic Drugs to Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates says that the long wait times for coronavirus test results render the whole thing useless. Or, in his words, the tests are "garbage."

Bill Gates Called Most US Coronavirus Tests “Garbage”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who identified a link between naturally-present lithium in drinking water and lower suicide rates suggest lacing communities' water supply.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Propose Adding Psychoactive Drug to our Water Supplies

By Dan Robitzski

Russia may begin a mass COVID-19 inoculation campaign this Autumn, but there's no available data showing that the experimental vaccine works.

Russian Officials Are Injecting Themselves With an Experimental COVID Vaccine

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

According to the director-general of the World Health Organization, the COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe health crisis in the organization's history.

WHO Calls COVID-19 the “Most Severe” Health Crisis in Its History

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists studying how sex chromosomes are linked to differences in the brain has to tread lightly, lest their work be misrepresented.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Studying Sex Differences in the Brain Fear Their Work Will Be Misrepresented

By Dan Robitzski

Before we can launch any long-term space travel, scientists will need to find away to protect against bacteria, which becomes deadlier in microgravity.

Oh Great: Space Travel Makes Bacteria Even Deadlier

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just discovered one of the ways that the coronavirus sneaks into cells: a "camouflage" enzyme disguises it as a natural part of the host.

The Coronavirus Uses a “Camouflage” Enzyme to Merc Your Cells

By Dan Robitzski

According to a preliminary lab test conducted by Pfizer, their COVID vaccine is effective against new highly transmissible variants of the virus.

Pharma Execs Say They Plan to Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German scientists are throwing a tightly-controlled concert in order to understand how COVID-19 can spread in large crowds.

German Scientists Are Hosting a Concert to Study How COVID-19 Spreads

By Dan Robitzski

"Bunny Ebola," a deadly hemorrhagic disease that infects rabbits, is spreading through domestic and wild populations in the U.S.

A “Bunny Ebola” Epidemic Is Sweeping Through America’s Rabbits

By Dan Robitzski

An app called Sonde One claims to spot signs of respiratory disease just by analyzing your voice. But it's careful to clarify that it can't really diagnose.

Prosthetics and Devices

This App Claims It Can Hear COVID-19 in Your Voice

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors managed to "delete" opioid addictions from the brains of lab mice by shining an implanted fiber optic light that prevented withdrawal.

Scientists Hack Mouse Brains to “Erase” Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

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

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

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

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus seems to kill more men than women for unknown reasons, but a new data tracker may help scientists get to the bottom of it.

Scientists Still Don’t Know Why COVID-19 Hits Men and Women Differently

By Dan Robitzski

Pandemic preparedness expert Eric Toner says that the U.S. response to the coronavirus has been abysmal and that the country needs to lock it down.

US Pandemic Advisor Says the Country Needs to Shut Down Again

By Dan Robitzski

A new durable hydrogel is both strong and flexible enough to replace missing knee cartilage, potentially doing away with invasive knee replacements.

Scientists Say New Artificial Cartilage Could Be Used in Knees

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical robot built by Korean engineers automates the process of jabbing patients' noses with a swab to test for COVID-19.

Bizarre Medical Robot Grabs Your Face, Jabs You With a Nose Swab

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that unless the U.S. government gets its act together, the country could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases every day.

Fauci: Prepare for 100,000 Daily Cases, “Disturbing” Death Toll

By Dan Robitzski

A gene-hacking serum nullified two genes linked to heart health in monkeys. If it works in humans, it could mean a future with no heart disease.

A Shot of This Gene Editing Serum Appears to Prevent Heart Disease in Monkeys

By Dan Robitzski

When the pharmaceutical industry finally develops a coronavirus vaccine, medical-grade glass shortages may prevent companies from distributing it.

The US Might Not Have Enough Glass Vials To Distribute the Coronavirus Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

Medical dean Dr. Peter Hotez warns that states like Florida, California, and Texas, are facing a looming "apocalyptic" wave of COVID-19.

Professor: Looming COVID Surge on “Verge of Being Apocalyptic”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are infecting mini-organs with COVID-19 to better understand how the virus infects and interacts with human organs.

Mini-Organ Research Reveals What COVID-19 Does to the Body

By Dan Robitzski

A new model shows every single atom in the spikes on the surface of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, potentially giving rise to more targeted treatment.

Scientists Mapped Out Every Atom in the Coronavirus’s Spikes

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that coronavirus antibodies and survivor's immunity could fade away after just two to three months.

Your Coronavirus Antibodies Might Fade After Just a Few Months

By Dan Robitzski

A common mutation of the coronavirus is far more contagious than others, potentially explaining why some regions were so devastated.

Scientists: Mutated Version of Coronavirus May Have Hit NYC, Italy

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

Michael Flor, who survived a record-setting 62-day hospital stay for the coronavirus, just got hit by a $1.1 million hospital bill.

Man Survives Coronavirus, Gets $1.1 Million Hospital Bill

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

On a call with biotechnology executives, Dr. Anthony Fauci described the coronavirus pandemic as his worst nightmare as a health expert.

Fauci Says “Worst Nightmare” Pandemic Is Worse Than He Ever Feared

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that, without lockdowns, the U.S. would have likely had nearly 5 million more cases of the coronavirus by early April.

Research: Coronavirus Lockdowns Prevented Millions of Infections

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.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is actually a genetic hybrid of a bat and pangolin virus that happened to swap genes.

Scientists: Coronavirus Likely a Hybrid of Two Other Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The first human trials for a COVID-19 antibody treatment are beginning. If it works, it could be available by the end of the year.

Scientists Test First COVID-19 Antibody Treatment on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization just confirmed that the Democratic Republic of Congo now has two unrelated Ebola outbreaks occurring simultaneously.

World Health Organization Confirms New Ebola Outbreak in the Congo

By Dan Robitzski

The Tokyo Women's Medical University started livestreaming surgery in virtual reality as a COVID-19 safety measure that may make education more accessible.

A Tokyo Hospital Is Livestreaming Surgeries in Virtual Reality

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.

RX and Medicine

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

By Dan Robitzski

A smart ring can warn users that they've caught the coronavirus up to three days before they show symptoms, potentially keeping them from infecting others.

Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable Claims to Spot COVID Three Days Before Symptoms Appear

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

Whenever a coronavirus vaccine becomes available to the public, only 49 percent of Americans responding to a poll said they'd actually get it.

Only One in Two Americans Say They’d Take a COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on fruit flies found ways to quantitatively measure the level of consciousness that a fly was currently experiencing.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Claim New Method Can Measure Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.

Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells

By Dan Robitzski

A Canadian startup called Anahit Therapeutics is trying to get ahead of the psilocybin legalization curve by building cultivation facilities in Jamaica.

This Startup is Building a Huge Magic Mushroom Farm in Jamaica

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built tiny, iron nanobots that they can implant and track inside a patient's body, which they say could be used to kill off cancer cells.

These Scientists Say Nanobots Could Kill Individual Cancer Cells

By Dan Robitzski

In order to limit the number of doctors who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, hospitals are using mixed reality goggles to communicate across rooms.

Doctors Are Using Mixed Reality to Treat COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical device that looks and spins like a fidget spinner can test for and diagnose a urinary tract infection in under an hour.

A Fidget Spinner-Inspired Test Can Diagnose UTIs in Under an Hour

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how the coronavirus takes over cells, and they think they found potential treatments that stop it.

Scientists Have a Promising New Idea to Defeat the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft and the biotech company Adaptive are launching a study on coronavirus patients' T cells, and they're buying blood samples to get started.

Microsoft Is Buying COVID-19 Patients’ Blood for Biotech Research

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of biostatistical models predicting the future U.S. coronavirus death toll agree: there will likely be 110,000 fatalities by June 6.

Multiple Models Predict 110,000 US Coronavirus Deaths by June

By Dan Robitzski

The clinic CityMD told 15,000 patients who took a COVID-19 test that they had built up an immunity against the disease, which is more than the test reveals.

CityMD Wrongly Told 15,000 Patients They Were Immune to COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

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

RX and Medicine

Darknet Marketplaces Are Full of COVID-19 Tests and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

By Dan Robitzski

After CDC scientists developed a comprehensive guide for how to safely re-open restaurants and public spaces, the White House buried it.

White House Secretly Buried CDC Guidelines on Reopening Country

By Dan Robitzski

New genetic analysis suggests that COVID-19 spread to the U.S. and Europe weeks or even months earlier than official reports say.

Scientists: COVID-19 Spread Globally for Months Before We Noticed

By Dan Robitzski

A new COVID-19 test uses CRISPR molecules to hunt for the coronavirus. And while more testing is needed, it could cost as little as $6.

MIT Invents $6 COVID-19 Test Using CRISPR

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA developed a new test for COVID-19 that can spot an infection within 24 hours, even earlier than people start spreading the coronavirus to others.

New Military Test Detects COVID-19 Before It’s Infectious

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just approved its first treatment for COVID-19: an experimental antiviral drug called remdesivir that showed promise in preliminary research.

FDA Grants Emergency Use of Remdesivir For COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

As various teams race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, one group at Oxford University says that, under the right conditions, theirs could be available as soon as September.

This COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready by September

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials announced that there are no longer any patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, but they're concerned about a second outbreak.

Wuhan Hospital Discharges City’s Last Coronavirus Patient

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are pleading with states that allow capital punishment to release their stores of lethal injection drugs, which could also help COVID-19 patients.

Doctors Want to Use Lethal Injection Drugs on COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the coronavirus could have mutated into 30+ different strains, which could explain why some outbreaks are deadlier than others.

Scientists: the Coronavirus Has Already Mutated Into 30+ Strains

By Dan Robitzski