November 7, 2025
(NPR) – For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life’s work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a once-obscure biological molecule, … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired Videos) – The ability to communicate with the dead. Immortality. Conquering death and breaking down the impenetrable barrier between the living and departed: it’s something humans have long strived for. Are advancements in technology bringing us closer to that … Read More
November 7, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – How do you end up with an A.I. lover? Some turned to them during hard times in their real-world marriages, while others were working through past trauma. Though critics have sounded alarms about dangers like … Read More
November 7, 2025
(Wired) – TB is the world’s top infectious disease killer — with 3,500 people dying of it each day for an annual total of more than 1.2 million deaths. And the numbers are going up. One of the hurdles in … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Wired) – New diagnostic kits aim to revolutionize early screening of the disease, potentially allowing patients to receive treatments—such as monoclonal antibodies—sooner. Last month, The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new blood test for assisting the diagnosis of … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Ars Technica) – If you ask an LLM to explain its own reasoning process, it may well simply confabulate a plausible-sounding explanation for its actions based on text found in its training data. To get around this problem, Anthropic is … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Undark) – Some experts believe CKD is the first chronic illness directly linked to climate change. Prevention may be possible. Ignacio, who is undocumented and asked that his last name not be used, was diagnosed with Stage 5 kidney disease … Read More
November 5, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Based on early clinical trial results, the Food and Drug Administration in October awarded the drug’s sponsor, biotech company Revolution Medicines, a new and unconventional accelerated review designed to get promising drugs to patients faster … Read More
November 4, 2025
(Wired) – Nitazenes, a class of synthetic drugs 40 times more potent than fentanyl, are steadily becoming more common on both sides of the Atlantic. US and European authorities are battling a new enemy in the war against opioids. Nitazenes … Read More
November 4, 2025
(WSJ) – George Tidmarsh, who resigned Sunday, is accused in a lawsuit of seeking a bribe and defaming a drug A Food and Drug Administration official who resigned on Sunday was sued by a Canadian pharmaceutical company, which accused him … Read More
November 3, 2025
(New York Times) – MaryBeth Lewis’s desire to be a new mom again, at 65 years old, led to a custody battle like no other. When MaryBeth arrived at the maternity ward, she found her surrogate in a recovery room, … Read More
November 3, 2025
(New York Times) – Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations. There was the picture of herself hanging from a noose, dead. And another of herself ablaze, screaming. The posts were part of … Read More
November 3, 2025
(Nature) – In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach. Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to … Read More
November 3, 2025
(WSJ) – A new sporting competition is enticing athletes to openly use performance-enhancing drugs and break records with million-dollar paychecks. Is it a grotesque spectacle or pushing the boundaries of human achievement? With investors that include venture capitalist Peter Thiel … Read More
October 31, 2025
(New York Times) – The lawsuit follows claims by President Trump that linked acetaminophen taken by pregnant women to autism, a connection that is unproven. The Texas lawsuit claims that the companies knowingly withheld evidence from consumers about Tylenol’s links … Read More
October 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the taboo technology. The new company, … Read More
October 31, 2025
(The New Republic) – In a pop-up city off the coast of Honduras, longevity startups are trying to fast-track anti-aging drugs. Is this the future of medical research? In July 2024, I flew to a pop-up city named Vitalia that … Read More
October 31, 2025
(New York Times) – Why are so many families in Lehigh Valley losing custody of their children? When Neary investigated the doctor’s past, she found a history of similar complaints spanning three decades and multiple states. Her reporting examined court … Read More
October 31, 2025
(WSJ) – 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you? Neo’s creator, 1X Technologies, is making the Rosie-the-Robot dream: some of the first humanoid housekeepers. Starting … Read More
October 31, 2025
(The Guardian) – Lawyer says ‘difficult to understand’ rules on storage consent led to confusion and left clients ‘in limbo’ A group of at least 15 fertility patients are taking legal action to prevent their frozen embryos being destroyed as … Read More
October 30, 2025
(AP) – Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist, according to attorneys and court … Read More
October 30, 2025
(ABC News) – Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, according to several studies. They are worried about bringing children into a world with increasing and more intense extreme weather events, … Read More
October 30, 2025
(Washington Post) – A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pandemic through some of 2021. … Read More
October 30, 2025
(Straight Arrow News) – In total, the scientists reviewed 46 studies. Of those, 27 studies reported that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was related to an increased risk of a child developing autism and ADHD. Nine studies found no association, while … Read More
October 29, 2025
(NPR) – Teens who start using cannabis before age 15 are more likely to use the drug often later in their lives. They are also more likely to develop mental and physical health problems in young adulthood compared to their … Read More
