May 9, 2023
(Nature) – The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reinstated a grant to a highly scrutinized research organization that studies bat coronaviruses — but the agency has placed several stipulations on the scope of the research and on the … Read More
May 8, 2023
(New York Times) – A raft of new hearing aids have hit the market in recent years, offering greater appeal to a generation of young adults that some experts say is both developing hearing problems earlier in life and — … Read More
May 5, 2023
(Nature) – At the height of the pandemic, researchers raced to develop some of the first effective treatments against COVID-19: antibody molecules isolated from the blood of people who had recovered from the disease. Now, scientists have shown that generative … Read More
April 29, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives introduced legislation aimed at encouraging drugmakers to develop antibiotics and antifungal drugs to address a growing public-health threat. Bills that lawmakers proposed in the House and Senate on … Read More
April 25, 2023
(MIT Technology Review) – No two hearts beat alike—and that can make it more complicated to treat heart disease. But a team of MIT engineers and others has developed a way to copy a patient’s unique heart in robotic form … Read More
April 25, 2023
(MIT Technology Review) – Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put … Read More
April 18, 2023
(The New Yorker) – In recent years, the science of extending female reproductive longevity has seen a new flurry of interest, and biotech companies are attempting to begin clinical trials of a number of therapies, including new I.V.F. techniques and … Read More
April 14, 2023
(STAT News) – The trophy is science — and specifically research funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research that has resulted in the clearest evidence yet that the presence of a particular misfolded protein, alpha-synuclein, can be … Read More
April 11, 2023
(MIT Technology Review) – Embryos are special. These tiny blobs of cells have the potential to create life. That’s why we limit what scientists can do with them. Researchers are generally not allowed to grow human embryos for more than … Read More
April 11, 2023
(Reuters) – Executives from more than 300 biotech and pharmaceutical industry companies, including Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Biogen Inc (BIIB.O), signed an open letter on Monday calling for reversal of a federal judge’s decision to suspend sales of the abortion … Read More
