Medicine

Inspired by Arctic fish, scientists are developing frost-fighting methods to keep organs viable for as long as possible.

Getting geroprotective drugs to market for specific disease applications is the first step in eventually making them available for healthier aging.

Autism is highly heritable—but is it a disease? Should it be cured? Could screening for it lead to eugenics? We explore the complicated landscape.

How a daring team of parents and doctors forged a new path for medicine.

Fauna Bio mines squirrel genomes for clues to developing new drugs for humans.

Sernova’s regenerative medicine pouch aims to help millions of people achieve insulin independence.

These innovators are using their own bodies to build evidence for their hypotheses.

Variations in your cognitive performance before exposure to a respiratory virus can predict the severity of the infection.

Manipulating memories, smell-based dating apps, and more.

Serimmune’s at-home tests compare your “epitope repertoire” against known cases, for more accurate diagnoses of everything from COVID-19 to Lyme disease to Epstein-Barr.