November 28, 2023
(STAT News) – I want to empower my patients and their families to make the most appropriate and evidence-based decisions about their care. It is therefore concerning to me that while the modest benefit of Leqembi in slowing the progression … Read More
November 28, 2023
(The Atlantic) – The results are so astounding that this therapy, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, became the first CRISPR medicine ever approved, with U.K. regulators giving the green light earlier this month; the FDA appears prepared to follow … Read More
November 27, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – At healthcare conferences, someone always asks, “What if there was a magic pill?” One that could cure major diseases. What would the healthcare industry look like? Some emergency rooms and hospitals but less doctors and spending? … Read More
November 27, 2023
November 24, 2023
(Nature) – Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles is suing her employer, the University of Auckland, in New Zealand’s employment court. She alleges that the university’s management “failed in their duty to keep her safe in her employment” while, as a high-profile scientist … Read More
November 21, 2023
(Undark) – Each year, hundreds of thousands of Americans volunteer for clinical trials. They swallow doses of experimental drugs and undergo novel surgeries. Some allow doctors to implant unproven devices into their bodies. Most trials end up being perfectly safe, … Read More
November 21, 2023
(STAT News) – They have roots in 50 countries that cover more than half of the globe’s surface. They make up more than 60% of the world’s population. They speak more than 100 different languages. Yet in medical research and … Read More
November 21, 2023
November 17, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – But wearable brain-sensing devices—as opposed to implanted—could offer a broader swath of consumers cognitive feedback and other brain enhancements. That’s already happening in university and company labs. Several recent studies using simulators have shown that wearable … Read More
November 16, 2023
(Slate) – When I arrived at the Child Study Center for the first day of preschool in the fall of 1972, I became one of a cohort of over 100 Berkeley children whose parents had enrolled us in a groundbreaking, … Read More
November 16, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Researchers are coming up with new ways to make medical studies less white. They are building trust in groups long ignored by science and working with doctors and patients of color to design better studies. They … Read More
November 15, 2023
November 14, 2023
(Science) – All told, the whistleblowers raise concerns about images from 35 basic research studies Zlokovic’s team has published, as well as data from two reports on the phase 2 trial of 3K3A-APC. The publications have a single common author: … Read More
November 14, 2023
(PhysOrg) – Climate crises, nuclear Armageddon, or a sudden meteor strike—it’s clear humanity could do with Planet B. But first we need to learn to reproduce safely in space, says Dutch entrepreneur Egbert Edelbroek. Edelbroek’s firm, Spaceborn United, is pioneering … Read More
November 13, 2023
(Nature) – The first trial in humans of the precise gene-editing technique known as base editing has shown promising results for keeping cholesterol levels in check. The approach injects into people a treatment called VERVE-101, which permanently deactivates a gene … Read More
November 13, 2023
(New York Times) – The handful of patients had severe heart disease that had caused chest pain and heart attacks. After trying available cholesterol-lowering medications, they could not get their cholesterol as low as cardiologists recommended. So they volunteered for … Read More
November 13, 2023
November 10, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – The latest in a series of high-profile retractions of research papers has people asking: What’s wrong with peer review? Scientific and medical journals use the peer-review process to decide which studies are worthy of publication. But … Read More
November 10, 2023
(Reuters) – Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space … Read More
November 9, 2023
(Nature) – Scientists have created an infant ‘chimaeric’ monkey by injecting a monkey embryo with stem cells from a genetically distinct donor embryo. The resulting animal is the first live-born chimaeric primate to have a high proportion of cells originating … Read More
November 8, 2023
(Nature) – An unpublished analysis shared with Nature suggests that over the past two decades, more than 400,000 research articles have been published that show strong textual similarities to known studies produced by paper mills. Around 70,000 of these were … Read More
November 8, 2023
(Associated Press) – More than 40% of American adults are considered obese, yet the medications many take are rarely tested in bigger bodies. That’s because they are not required to be included in drug studies. And often, they’re explicitly excluded. … Read More
November 7, 2023
(Bloomberg) – Elon Musk is preparing for the most consequential launch of his career. But this one isn’t rocket science–it’s brain surgery. Musk’s company Neuralink Corp. is seeking a volunteer for its first clinical trial, meaning it’s looking for someone … Read More
November 6, 2023
(Nature) – A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT, according to a study published on 6 November in Cell Reports Physical Science1. The specialized classifier, which outperformed two existing artificial intelligence (AI) … Read More
November 2, 2023
