Biology & Health
- Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
- The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
- AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
- Getting your hands dirty is good for you
- How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)
- Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
- FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
- Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
- Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
- FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
- The Sloppification of Peptides
- Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
- Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants
- Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study
- Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
- Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
- A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
- Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
- Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
- At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
- The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
- England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
- Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree
- I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
- Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
- Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)
- Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
- Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
- Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
- Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
- Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy
- Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others
- New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
- Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions
- Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?
- Humans haven't stopped evolving
- Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes
- Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
- EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
- Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
- The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia
- How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
- Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
- Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
- What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?
- How to sequence your own DNA at home
- How little exercise can you get away with?
- Should DayQuil Be Legal?
- Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
- The bottleneck might be the air in the room
- Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
- Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise
- For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
- Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice
- The first early human eggs from stem cells
- Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)
- Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)
- Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)
- What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
- Ultrasound imaging of the brain
- Ending respiratory infections
- A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading
- The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
- FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
- Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
- Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)
- Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
- Midjourney Medical
- Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins
- Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin
- Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress
- New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times
- CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
- Why are so many young people getting cancer?
- Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
- The Causes of Long Covid
- I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
- Debug Project
- Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
- Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
- The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients
- Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"
- Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
- Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
- 560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
- Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
- Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
- WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
- Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
- Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
- Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
- Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
- New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
- An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
- Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
- Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
- The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?
- Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
- Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
- Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
- Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
- Sauna effect on heart rate
- Notes from the SF peptide scene
- Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
- Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan
- CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
- Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
- Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
- The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
- Peptides: where to begin?
- Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
- Bird brains (2023)
- Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
- Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
- Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
- Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
- A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place
- Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
- Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
- The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
- Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
- Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
- Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
- The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19
- Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
- New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
- Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
- Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
- Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
- Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
- Autism should not be treated as a single condition
- There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
- A One-Minute ADHD Test
- Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics
- Some people can't see mental images
- Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast (2023)
- New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques from Brains of Mice Within Hours
- Aphantasia and Psychedelics
- Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app
- Review of Anti-Aging Drugs
- Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring
- Estrogen: A Trip Report
- After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?
- Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
- Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy
- Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive
- China's Clinical Trial Boom
- Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects
- Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading
- The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)
- Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?
- A Year of Telepathy
- Microplastics in the human brain
- Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
- Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
- CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
- Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study
- People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research
- Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)
- Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
- Climbers using xenon gas to climb Everest
- How corn syrup took over America
- Study links sugar-filled drinks to millions of heart disease and diabetes cases
- Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
- Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?
- Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
- 28h Days: year 1 update
- Spinal cord injuries from mountain biking exceed hockey, other high-risk sports
- Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages
- Why is the American diet so deadly?
- Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
- Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
- First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body
- Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers
- Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
- Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'
- H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
- Dog Aging Project
- 'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system
- BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video]
- Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
- The new science of controlling lucid dreams
- Taxi drivers offer a clue to Alzheimer's risk
- Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?
- Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
- One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices
- The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
- Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
- Ozempic increases risk of debilitating eye condition: studies
- Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter
- Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
- People who are good at reading have different brains: study
- Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn
- A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
- Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor
- Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins
- Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease
- Insects rely on sounds made by vegetation to guide reproduction
- Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research
- A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
- Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US
- Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant
- California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite
- ‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’
- Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Shows 100% Effectiveness in Women
- Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?
- Gene behind orange fur in cats
- Engineering Sleep
- Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done
- Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad
- Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates
- Raw milk recalled for containing bird flu virus, California reports
- Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds
- Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite
- CDC Confirms H5N1 Bird Flu Infection in California Child: First Child Case in US
- Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells
- Rats learned to drive
- Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn
- How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine
- Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds
- Biological Miracle – Wood Frog
- Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese
- The cochlear implant question
- Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms
- Recovering from a kidney donation
- Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day
- The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury
- Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
- Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds
- Mitochondria Are Alive
- FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant
- Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure
- Study reveals blood sugar control is a key factor in slowing brain aging
- HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer
- Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores
- Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
- Britain's postwar sugar craze confirms harms of sweet diets in early life
- Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
- A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones
- 1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023)
- Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
- GLP-1s are among the most important drug breakthroughs
- GLP-1 for Everything
- What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
- Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade
- Family medicine is in decline
- 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)
- Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
- It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
- Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds
- The brain's waste clearing lymphatic system shown in people for first time
- Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes
- Scientists predict and witness evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment
- Autism's Four Core Subtypes
- Impact of early life adversity on reward processing in young adults (2014)
- Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
- Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
- Cats are (almost) liquid
- Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment
- Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove
- Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
- Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study
- Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
- Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk
- Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem?
- In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)
- How long til we're all on Ozempic?
- The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking
- On 17th century "cocaine"
- GLP-1 pills are coming, and they could revolutionize weight-loss treatment
- The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)
- To Be Born in a Bag
- Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections
- Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial
- No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems
- New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data
- Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
- An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped
- New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness
- FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
- Fraud, so much fraud
- Octopuses seen hunting together with fish
- Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
- The unknowns surrounding the mysterious rise of cancer in young adults
- Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice
- US health system ranks last compared with peer nations – report
- Microplastics in the olfactory bulb of the human brain
- Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
- What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?
- Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval
- The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out
- Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight
- Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys
- We're not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon
- Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus
- How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works
- Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]
- Four Thieves Vinegar Collective – Harm Reduction for the Living
- Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
- Rethinking addiction as a chronic brain disease
- Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
- For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful
- Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'
- NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion
- Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality
- Crows are even smarter than we thought
- Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
- Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying
- Drug Development Failure: how GLP-1 development was abandoned in 1990
- The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
- Blood Disorder: Unveiling the Mystery of My Poisoning in Sweden
- Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine
- Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
- Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
- Intelligence is not like height
- Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible
- Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
- The staggering death toll of scientific lies
- GLP-1 therapy increases visceral adipose tissue metabolic activity
- Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains
- Eli Lilly's weight loss drug slashes the risk of diabetes in long-term trial
- Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you
- How Deep Can Humans Go?
- How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)
- Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons
- You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
- Cancer rates are rising in young people
- It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis
- Daily marijuana use linked to increased risk of deadly head and neck cancers
- Jake Seliger has died
- Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?
- Prevention of HIV
- I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life
- Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds
- Starting Hospice
- A primer on the current state of longevity research
- What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images
- Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, has died
- A rare disorder makes people see monsters
- Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?
- Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990
- Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
- Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?
- The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s
- Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol
- Weight-loss drugs are causing people to spend less at the grocery store: study
- Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient
- MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
- Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
- U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
- Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
- Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice
- How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?
- Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction
- Doctor-prescribed videogame for ADHD
- Elephants use namelike calls
- Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain
- Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked
- After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table
- Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
- Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)
- Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet?
- Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
- Why haven't biologists cured cancer?
- Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation
- Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
- Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
- The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
- Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)
- Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure
- Traffic noise hurts children's brains
- Mitochondrial signal transduction (2022)
- Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
- Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
- Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial
- Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell
- Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
- Are animals conscious? New research
- Sleep deprivation disrupts memory
- Brain-Health Benefits of Weightlifting
- Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19
- Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep
- Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi
- Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner
- It is time for more holistic practices in mental health
- A Revolution in Biology?
- Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
- Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
- Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
- Alarms in medical equipment
- The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)
- US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero
- An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
- Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
- Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake'
- Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images
- Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases
- Study shows most doctors endorsing drugs on X are paid to do so
- CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air
- Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials
- Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide) associated with reduction in alcohol addiction
- Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
- How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?
- Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?
- Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review
- Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks
- Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma
- What happens in the brain to cause depression?
- To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
- Last hours of an organ donor
- My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
- Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
- Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults
- An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023
- US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)
- Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking in US first
- Ask HN: Discuss ADHD and your use of medication
- A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows
- Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
- Number 16 (spider)
- The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
- Why Are Sloths So Slow?
- Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel
- The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002)
- Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
- Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic
- I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
- Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic
- Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'
- New gel breaks down alcohol in the body
- Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair
- Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds
- Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
- Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla
- Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
- Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
- Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
- Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
- Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness
- NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul
- Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?
- Transgenic Golden Rice, once hailed as a dietary breakthrough
- Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
- Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
- mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours
- What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
- How ECMO is redefining death
- Sunlight and Vitamin D (2013)
- Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy?
- Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
- Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules
- How to prevent Lyme disease this summer
- H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
- Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking
- Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial
- Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
- It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says (2021)
- Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
- Thoughts on Seed Oil
- I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)
- How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
- Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions
- Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest
- How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys
- Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psychedelic use
- An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus
- Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
- Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths
- Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
- Ronda Rousey: "I never wanted to talk about concussion"
- US city-country mortality gap widens
- Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market
- Cow Magnets
- Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation
- Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?
- Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?
- Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves mental illness
- Ketogenic Diet Intervention on Metabolic and Psychiatric Health
- First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
- Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?
- Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu
- Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study
- Hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future
- Lifelong Disadvantage: How Socioeconomics Affect Brain Function
- For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
- 'Super memory': Why Emily Nash is sharing her brain with science
- Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code
- Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019
- Why isn't dental health considered primary medical care?
- Vasopressin deficiency: driver of social impairment and fluid imbalance in ASD? [pdf]
- Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race
- Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient
- The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
- Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview
- Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain
- Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth
- Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests
- Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)
- Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial
- Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)
- Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
- Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
- Genetically engineering koji mold to create a meat alternative
- Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died
- The new science on what ultra-processed food does to the brain
- Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
- Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children
- Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
- FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
- How I keep myself alive using Golang
- CDC ditches 5-day Covid isolation, argues Covid is becoming flu-like
- On the trail of the Denisovans
- A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs
- Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)
- FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods
- U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
- Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
- ADHD linked to evolutionary success in ancient humans
- The case against caffeine
- AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer
- Biologists discover four new octopus species
- $5 device tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds: study
- Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
- Fitness trackers find new symptom of depression: body temperature
- Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise
- Where did DNA come from?
- Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?
- The appendix is not, in fact, useless
- High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke
- Cannabis use linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders
- It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
- Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development
- FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines
- Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds
- Why flying insects gather at artificial light
- Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
- Everyone hates the electronic medical record
- The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday
- Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
- Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
- How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
- HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated <14
- Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing
- Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
- Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
- Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
- Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
- When America first dropped acid
- Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age
- How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
- AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics
- Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
- New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy
- Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
- Spotted water hemlock: the most toxic plant in North America (2017)
- Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)
- Rethinking Diabetes – interview with Gary Taubes
- Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
- Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled
- The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
- Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared
- Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?
- The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
- Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds
- Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
- Cells across the body talk to each other about aging
- The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication (2021)
- What does the cerebellum do?
- Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food
- Researchers discover physical cause of long Covid tiredness
- 30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
- Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study
- Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
- Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics
- Blueprint health protocol
- Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
- The Year of Ozempic
- The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
- High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
- Ask HN: Should I medicate my ADHD?
- Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought
- Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
- Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work
- U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's
- The falling nutritional value of crops
- What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
- Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving
- What’s behind the Freud resurgence?
- Smoking Causes Cancer
- Kids with cats have double the risk of developing schizophrenia
- Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval
- FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
- A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay
- Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension
- Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022
- Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice
- Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease
- Cannabis that people are using for anxiety is probably making it worse
- Cats that fetch are an evolutionary mystery
- Mid-old cells are a potential target for anti-aging interventions in the elderly
- C diff spores resist bleach and remain viable on surgical scrubs, fabrics
- Polio is on the brink of eradication
- In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge
- Aerobic exercise is good for the brain; easy wins for behaviour change
- No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
- Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats
- FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell
- Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
- Melatonin use soars among children, with unknown risks
- Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making
- Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections
- Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids
- Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
- Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research
- Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years less than women, study
- Nicotine (2016)
- Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke
- Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction
- A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians
- Are colonoscopies worth it?