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And it seems to work alongside popular weight-loss medications, like Ozempic.
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
Cancer likes glucose. So take it away.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
It’s safe to use your face cream, as long as you aren’t eating it.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Let us share this miracle with mothers in poor countries.
A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
Scientists are finding tumor signals in spit that could be key to developing diagnostic tests for various types of cancer.
The study was small and didn’t include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a “holy grail” of psychiatry.
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science.
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.
The body uses its own electricity to repair wounds. Faster healing may be possible with additional electrical stimulation.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.
“Rational vaccinology” could lead to effective cancer vaccines.
From the bedside to the lab bench, here’s how laboratory testing works.