medicine
05/10/2017 - 12:10
Grey considers aging an engineering problem. The human body is a machine, he told me in the following interview, and like any machine, it... →
30/07/2017 - 11:51
The deal, expected to close in late 2017 pending shareholder approval, reportedly would be the largest-ever acquisition of an Israeli... →
12/02/2017 - 13:03
This view still guides much of biomedical research; organisms, cells, gene networks and more are routinely perturbed to determine how these... →
06/02/2017 - 12:59
What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of... →
28/01/2017 - 21:18
1. ENHANCE DESIRE IN A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP
Building intimacy and responsiveness outside the bedroom keeps desire alive in established... →
10/08/2016 - 14:56
“Placebo is a complex phenomenon in which the patient’s expectation of recovery affects his state of health,” she continued. “Expectation... →
15/05/2016 - 14:54
Invisible skin
Now Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his team, working with cosmetics spinout company Olivo,... →
14/05/2016 - 11:06
Organizers said the project could have a big scientific payoff and would be a follow-up to the original Human Genome Project, which was... →
08/05/2016 - 12:11
The area where genomics-driven innovations have attracted the most attention is health. Rapid progress toward truly “personalized medicine... →
02/09/2015 - 12:04
Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and writer garlanded as the “poet laureate of medicine”, has died at his home in New York City. He... →
22/08/2015 - 13:15
The brain, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, is engineered from adult human skin cells and is the most complete human brain model... →
01/08/2015 - 11:51
Rain gives you rheumatism… maybe
Despite anecdotal reports that wet and windy conditions inflame the joints, the evidence is about as... →