Health
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Global Warming Could Make Some Fish Less Nutritious
The nutrient composition of ocean life is changing.
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Immunity Is a Matter of Timing
Vaccines, infections, and diseases can all be influenced by our circadian rhythm.
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Is There Any Place for Race in Medicine?
Medicine uses race to try to provide more equitable care. But that prescription likely does more harm.
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Exercise Is Great for Our Brains, Too, Right?
One question for Luis Ciria, a neuroscientist at the University of Granada.
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Why Doctors Can’t Name Female Anatomy
A vulva by any other name … causes confusion and unnecessary suffering.
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If Technology Only Had a Heart
The failure to produce an artificial heart is a testament to the wizardry of nature.
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Why Reading Your Doctor’s Notes Can Be Painful
A physician diagnoses the problem with medical notes—with a prescription for change.
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Mother Nature’s 7 Lessons for a Safer World
The best defense can be learned from the evolution of the animal immune system.
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How Is TikTok Affecting Mental Health?
One question for J.D. Haltigan, an assistant professor of child and youth mental health at the University of Toronto.
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Are We Doctors or Data Workers?
I want to solve illnesses, not scroll through them—the dilemma of electronic health records.
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Communication Breakdown in the Brain
Inside the research to get neurons back in a healthy conversation with one another.
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Can Organoids Take Us into a New Era of Medicine?
Meet the human cell-based models that are better, faster, cheaper—and more ethical to use—than animals.
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What Can Night-Shift Workers Do to Feel Better?
One question for Sarah Chellappa, a neuroscientist at the University of Cologne.
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Targeting Cancer’s Achilles Heel
Biden’s Cancer Moonshot aims to cut annual deaths in half. Scientists have the goal in their sights.
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Cancer’s Got a Lot of Nerve
Tumors recruit the nervous system to help them spread. Scientists are looking for ways to stop it.
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Why Do the Omicron Variants Spread So Easily?
One question for Abdullah Syed, a postdoctoral researcher at the Gladstone Institutes.
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You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week
What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
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Cancer Shouldn’t Pose a Threat to Our Lives. We Should Find It First
Identifying the “first cell” could revolutionize the way we treat cancer.
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Can Cancer Be Treated by Changing Its Cells?
Tumors grow when cells lose their biological identity. A promising therapeutic might restore their sense of self.
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Painkillers That Don’t Kill
Scientists are getting closer to designing safer, more targeted pain drugs to replace opioids.
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This Is Some Good Shit
How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.
