medicine

The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.

HIV mutates rapidly, which has made the development of a vaccine an enormous challenge for decades. Finally, we might have one.

Athletes often use creatine to boost performance and aid muscle recovery. Accumulating evidence suggests it could also help with depression.

The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.

We also don’t know how Tylenol works. But it does work.

By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.

Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.

Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?

The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.

The antibodies elicited by the “S2 vaccine” not only neutralize COVID’s multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.

New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.

If you want a medication to kick in faster, lean right.

While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.

Heart muscle is shaped like a spiral, a mystery that has eluded scientists since 1669. New research has recreated the structure.

It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.

Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.

For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.

It could permanently lower cholesterol — and permanently reduce your risk of having a heart attack.

While Y chromosome loss was first observed in 1963, it was not until 2014 that researchers found the link to a shorter life span.

For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.

Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.

More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.

Myrkl (pronounced “miracle”) is supposed to let you go wild without facing the consequences the next day. But does it actually work?

Noradrenaline-targeting drugs, including blood pressure, depression, and ADHD meds, improve Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.

From ibuprofen to fentanyl, it’s about meeting the pain where it’s at.

A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.

The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe.

Two ICU physicians offer a new approach to stopping it.

All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. 

“Lac-Phe” grants obese mice the benefits of exercise — without exercising. But don’t expect an “exercise pill.”