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Pastor and author Brandon Robertson recently got an antibody test for COVID-19. We caught up with him about the experience and his thoughts on the future.

Here’s What It’s like to Get a COVID Antibody Test

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just granted an emergency use authorization to a new test that scans saliva samples for the coronavirus, potentially making testing far safer.

FDA Approves Test That Scans Your Spit for Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

When he declared a national emergency on March 13, Trump made a lot of grand promises. One month later, most have been broken.

A Brief List of Trump’s Broken Coronavirus Promises

By Dan Robitzski

There's no good evidence suggesting that hydroxychloroquine helps fight COVID-19. But Trump, who invested in the drug's manufacturer, keeps pushing it.

There’s No Good Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Fights COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors considered treating more severe cases of COVID-19 by splitting one ventilator among four patients. But that would put all four in greater danger.

Experts Say Putting Multiple Patients on One Ventilator Is Unsafe

By Dan Robitzski

New parents report a number of unexpected challenges, chaos, and confusion as a result of giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic.

Experts Say Childbirth During the Pandemic Can Be Traumatic

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams around the world are trying to develop blood tests for the coronavirus, but so far no one has figured it out.

Blood Tests Could Improve the Coronavirus Fight — If They Work

By Dan Robitzski

The narrative itself is a work of fiction, but the biological mechanisms and medical risks that it describes are very real.

Here’s a Grisly Description of a Worst-Case Coronavirus Infection

By Dan Robitzski

A very small study found that some patients who recover from the coronavirus could face long-term lung damage and reduced lung capacity.

After the Coronavirus, Some Patients Face Ongoing Lung Damage

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just took their first stab at curing a genetic condition that causes blindness early in life through CRISPR gene-hacking.

CRISPR Scientists Hack Patient’s Genes in Bid to Cure Blindness

By Dan Robitzski

Orthopedic surgeons have begun offering leg lengthening — long offered as a corrective procedure for congenital defects — to insecure, short men.

Want to Be Taller? Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs.

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that cancer-linked mutations can occur years before any symptoms appear, potentially giving doctors a new tool to diagnose it early.

New Research: Cancer Symptoms Can Appear Years Before Diagnosis

By Dan Robitzski

As of Monday, the death toll for the 2019-nCoV coronavirus is now higher than that of the 2002 SARS outbreak, though its fatality rate is much smaller.

Coronavirus Has Now Killed More People in China Than SARS Did

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization reversed its previous decision and declared the coronavirus outbreak a "public health emergency of international concern."

WHO Declares The Coronavirus Outbreak a Public Health Emergency

By Dan Robitzski

As China struggles to keep a lid on the 2019-nCoV pandemic, it has now quarantined 12 cities and cancelled their public transportation.

China Has Now Quarantined 35 Million People to Prevent Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

As the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread, a prominent virologist predicts that it will be at least ten times worse than the 2003 SARS outbreak.

Virologist: China Virus Will Be At Least 10x Worse Than SARS

By Dan Robitzski

A genetic analysis of the virus behind the Chinese pandemic reveals that it likely originated from a snake at Wuhan's seafood market.

Mysterious Chinese Virus May Have Spread From Snakes

By Dan Robitzski

Now four cities in China are in lockdown quarantines to try and nip the coronavirus pandemic in the bud, trapping a total 20 million residents.

China Quarantines Three More Entire Cities to Fight Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

According to a news bulletin, all travel out of Wuhan, China has been suspended in an attempt to contain the spreading 2019-nCoV virus.

China Quarantines Entire City Where Mystery Virus Outbreak Began

By Dan Robitzski

In the face of a worsening public health crisis, the Chinese government is censoring social media and articles about the Wuhan virus.

China Censored Info About Growing Pandemic on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious Chinese pneumonia-like coronavirus that originated from Wuhan, China, has officially reached the US, with one confirmed case in Washington.

Mysterious, Deadly Chinese Virus Officially Reaches the US

By Dan Robitzski

In an attempt to limit the spread of the pneumonia-like virus 2019-nCoV, the government in China is screening passengers on departing flights.

In China, Hazmat Teams Are Searching Flights For Deadly Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials confirmed that the pneumonia-like virus that first emerged at a Wuhan seafood market can be transmitted from person-to-person.

Chinese Virus Is Spreading Between Humans, Prompting Outbreak Fears

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious pneumonia-like virus that hit China last month has now spread to Japan and Thailand. Experts still aren't sure how.

China’s Mysterious Virus Spreads to Japan and Thailand

By Dan Robitzski

When the Department of Veterans Affairs refused to pay for a disabled veteran's prosthetic legs, the company that provided the limbs came to repo them.

Prosthetics and Devices

Healthcare Company Repossesses Veteran’s Prosthetic Legs

By Dan Robitzski

Last month in China, dozens of people in the city of Wuhan fell ill with a new disease, a strain of the pneumonia virus, and officials worry it may spread.

A Strange Disease Is Sweeping China

By Dan Robitzski

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.

Pentagon Urges Military Members to Skip At-Home DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists developed a system of lasers that works like a remote ultrasound system: it can peer into a patient's body without touching them.

MIT Scientists Can Look at Your Insides From a Distance

By Dan Robitzski

Medical researchers gave Alzheimer's patients LSD to see how it affected their cognition. The treatment seemed safe, paving the way for future studies.

Doctors Are Giving Alzheimer’s Patients LSD

By Dan Robitzski

Apple's employee wellness program includes free DNA tests through Color, which can scan for things like cancer and heart disease.

Apple’s Employee “Wellness” Program Includes Free DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.

The Co-Founder of Google Is Quietly Trying to Cure the Flu

By Dan Robitzski

GEDMatch, the DNA ancestry company that famously helped police track down a serial killer, just got bought by a genetic forensics firm.

Tech Firm That Develops Tools for Police Buys Massive DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

A team of bioethicists argue that it's high time GoFundMe better regulate its platform to keep out medical scammers and unregulated treatments.

Bioethicists: GoFundMe Is Profiting off Medical Scams

By Dan Robitzski

23Mofang, a Chinese DNA test startup offering similar reports to 23andMe, makes scientifically-questionable claims in its results, raising privacy concerns.

Chinese 23andMe Knockoff Gives Different Results From 23andMe

By Dan Robitzski

An American biotech firm claims it can slow or reverse human aging through gene-hacking, but the entire premise is scientificially questionable.

Gene-Hacking Company Says It Can Slow Your Aging for $1 Million

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists recreated the bizarre activity of brain cells in tiny new chips, potentially leading to a new generation of artificial medical devices.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Finally Build Artificial Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Decades later, people who had half their brain removed as children have stronger neural connections and function than doctors expected.

Neuroscience and Brain

People With Half Their Brain Removed Are Doing Surprisingly Well

By Dan Robitzski

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.

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

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.

RX and Medicine

This Person Vaped So Much They Needed a Double Lung Transplant

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Genomic Prediction offers report cards based on the DNA test of frozen embryos. Experts say it's reminiscent of eugenics.

DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Over a year later, the veteran who got the world's first penis transplant that included the scrotum and surrounding flesh reports that he's doing just fine.

Doctors Announce First Ever “Fully Functional” Penis Transplant

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Health Minister Matt Hancock envisions a future where every child born in the country gets a genome sequence to scan for rare diseases.

UK Plans to Give All Children Full Genome Sequence at Birth

By Dan Robitzski

The life expectancy for American men has steadily dropped for several years. Meanwhile, deaths from drug overdose have nearly doubled.

The Life Expectancy for American Men Keeps Falling

By Dan Robitzski

Compared to the casualties caused by the mysterious vape lung illness, taking up smoking at all is still drastically more deadly.

Idiots Are Starting to Vape, Then Switching to Cigarettes

By Dan Robitzski

People in the Phillipines are selling organs on Facebook, supplying an illegal human organ trafficking ring in exchange for some desperately-needed cash.

People Are Selling Human Organs on Facebook

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.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Grew Living Mouse Embryos Using Only Stem Cells

By Dan Robitzski

An app claiming to use DNA tests to determine whether someone's gay is under fire by the scientists who actually conducted the research it's based on.

Scientists Call For Removal of App Claiming to Detect Gay DNA

By Dan Robitzski

After promising results in animal studies, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania are about to test an experimental herpes vaccine on humans.

Scientists Are Testing a Herpes Vaccine on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Those mysterious "sonic attacks" that gave diplomats visiting Cuba in 2016 concussion-like symptoms may have actually been caused by pesticide fumes.

Cuban “Sonic Attacks” May Have Been Caused by Neurotoxins

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Trusii told customers it would pay them monthly if they took out a loan to participate in a study testing its hydrogen water machine.

Biohackers Got Scammed by a Company Selling “Hydrogen Water”

By Dan Robitzski

Three more health departments have announced vape-related deaths, bringing the total death tally of the mysterious lung disease up to five people.

Terrifying Vape Disease Has Now Killed Five People

By Dan Robitzski

Johns Hopkins announced a new privately-funded research center to develop psychedelics-based medical treatments for conditions like depression and PTSD.

Health & Medicine

The First Center for Psychedelics Research is Opening in the US

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.

RX and Medicine

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

By Dan Robitzski

Medical testing startup uBiome based its consumer gut-testing kits on some shoddy science, including keeping animal and infant research in its database.

Microbiome Testing Startup uBiome Based Tests on Infant, Pet Data

By Dan Robitzski

The way we view old age could be hurting and stigmatizing a huge chunk of the population that's capable of doing much more than people tend to think.

MIT Professor: “Old Age” Is Imaginary

By Dan Robitzski

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

RX and Medicine

We Have a Cure for the Deadliest Form of Tuberculosis

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that cosmic radiation is even more dangerous than we thought. Mice exposed to Mars-journey levels developed dementia-like symptoms.

Science & Energy

Mars-Journey Levels of Radiation Seriously Damaged Mouse Brains

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental HIV vaccine that showed promise in past studies is about to be tested on thousands of people from around the world.

Health & Medicine

Thousands of People Are About to Test an HIV Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A rare, brain-swelling deadly virus spread via mosquitoes was just spotted in Orange County, Florida, prompting public advisories warning to avoid bites.

Mosquitoes in Florida Are Spreading a Deadly Brain Virus

By Dan Robitzski

IBM just announced that it was making three of its artificial intelligence projects designed to help doctors and cancer researchers open-source.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM Just Made its Cancer-Fighting AI Projects Open-Source

By Dan Robitzski

A new therapy targeting the Cngb1 gene restored eyesight and regular neural connections between the eye and brain of experimental mice.

Health & Medicine

Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Blind Mice

By Dan Robitzski

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI is investigating the billing practices of biomed startup uBiome. The company may have been billing insurers for more services than it provided.

Health & Medicine

FBI Investigating uBiome’s Billing Practices

By Dan Robitzski