Depression is like waking up to a rainy, dreary morning, every single day. Activities that previously lightened the mood lose their joy. Instead, every...
In September, scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health announced they had successfully grown “humanized” kidneys inside pig embryos.The scientists genetically altered...
Psychedelics made their mark this year—not as counterculture party drugs, but as a new paradigm in mental health therapy.In June, Australia became the first...
This year gave rise to an incredible mix of brain implants that can record, decode, and alter brain activity.It sounds like déjà vu—brain-machine interfaces...
CRISPR ended 2023 with a bang.In November, the gene editing tool scored its first clinical approval for treating sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia in...
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...
