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After Weight Loss, Ozempic Is Set to Conquer a Universe of Brain Disorders

One inescapable word dominated biomedicine this year: Ozempic.Physicians were amazed at the drug’s efficacy in treating diabetes, for which it is FDA approved, and...

A Ball of Brain Cells on a Chip Can Learn Simple Speech Recognition and Math

A tiny ball of brain cells hums with activity as it sits atop an array of electrodes. For two days, it receives a pattern...

This Mind-Reading Cap Can Translate Thoughts to Text Thanks to AI

Wearing an electrode-studded cap bristling with wires, a young man silently reads a sentence in his head. Moments later, a Siri-like voice breaks in,...

Ultrasonic 3D Printer Could One Day Repair Organs in the Body Without Surgery

A plump piece of farm-fresh chicken leg rested on a pristine surface at Harvard Medical School. Skin on and bone in, it was precisely...

Brain Implant Sparks Remarkable Recovery in Patients With Severe Brain Injury

At 21 years old, a young woman’s life was turned upside down after suffering a blow to the head and severe brain injury during...

An AI Tool Just Revealed Almost 200 New Systems for CRISPR Gene Editing

CRISPR has a problem: an embarrassment of riches.Ever since the gene editing system rocketed to fame, scientists have been looking for variants with better...

Biologists Unveil the First Living Yeast Cells With Over 50% Synthetic DNA

Our ability to manipulate the genes of living organisms has expanded dramatically in recent years. Now, researchers are a step closer to building genomes...

Spinal Implant Helps a Man With Severe Parkinson’s Walk With Ease Again

In his mid-30s, Marc Gauthier noticed a creeping stiffness in his muscles. His hand shook when trying to hold steady. He struggled to maintain...

Zombie Cells Have a Weakness. An Experimental Anti-Aging Therapy Exploits It.

Senescent cells are biochemical waste factories.A new study suggests that a way to wipe them out is a medicine already approved for eye problems. Dubbed...

How to Give AI a ‘Gut Feeling’ for Which Molecules Will Make the Best Drugs

Intuition and AI make a strange couple.Intuition is hard to describe. It’s that gut feeling that gnaws at you, even if you don’t know...

Bristol Myers’ neuroscience research head explains the big pharma’s return to brain drugs

Like many large pharmaceutical companies, Bristol Myers Squibb hasn’t made brain drugs a top priority over the last decade. As a field, neuroscience represents a...

FDA staff focus on ‘off-target’ risk in review of Vertex, CRISPR sickle cell therapy

Food and Drug Administration scientists are scrutinizing whether an experimental gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease makes unwanted changes to DNA as part...

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