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A tiny sea creature might hold the secret to reversing the aging process. When treated with a brief series of electrical pulses, sea squirts experience dramatic and long-lasting health improvements that can significantly extend their lifespans, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford and other institutions.

In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly large language models (LLMs), has opened new frontiers in multiple fields, including healthcare. A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Penn State has now provided a rigorous evaluation of how AI-powered chatbots respond to everyday health-related inquiries posed by the general public. The study […]

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of severe heart failure: For the first time, a clinical trial has demonstrated that laboratory-grown heart muscle tissue can improve the pumping function of damaged hearts.

As more people turn to artificial intelligence chatbots for emotional and mental health support, a new study from Drexel University suggests that most users see these tools as supplements to - not substitutes for - human therapy.

Researchers with the University of Cincinnati and Johns Hopkins Medicine developed a potential treatment for brain cancer that uses nanofibers embedded with a combination of drugs that work in concert to target tumors.

In a groundbreaking new study published in the International Journal of Obesity, researchers have unveiled a complex interplay between bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), a high-fat diet (HFD), and gut microbiota alterations that collectively influence the progression of obesity. This cutting-edge research, led by Ning, Chen, Yang, and colleagues, sheds light on the pivotal […]

As chatbots powered by artificial intelligence become more ingrained in our everyday lives, people are increasingly using them to help diagnose their medical concerns. Should I be worried about this rash? What if this insect bite gets infected? Is this pain the symptom of a larger problem? When dealing with someone's health, the answers need to be as accurate as possible.

As more people turn to artificial intelligence chatbots for emotional and mental health support, a new study from Drexel University posted to the arXiv preprint server suggests that most users see these tools as supplements to—not substitutes for—human therapy. Drawing on millions of Reddit posts, the study highlights both the growing appeal of AI support tools for emotional reassurance, coping and practical guidance, as well as the concerns users express about emotional dependence, misinformation and overreliance on the technology.

Google’s reputation would have you thinking it’s incapable of launching a quality first-gen product, but the Fitbit Air proves otherwise. Effectively billed as a Whoop competitor for the masses, the Air is a display-less fitness band that is capable of providing you with baseline health data for just $100. If you’re one of the many, many people feeling overwhelmed by the amount of screens in your life, disconnecting with a band as simple as the Air might be just what the doctor ordered. more…

In an era defined by relentless technological advancement, a groundbreaking paradigm is emerging at the crossroads of biology and computation, poised to revolutionize our understanding of both fields. The nascent discipline of biocomputing, which harnesses living neural tissue to perform computational tasks, is capturing the imagination of researchers worldwide. This pioneering approach leverages the inherent […]

The interim Phase I trial data was only from 35 people, but results look good so far.

Commentary: A few weeks with Fitbit Air helped me through a brutal week of work and hard fun, but is a chat-based AI the right way to do this?

Three months ago, Charles River Laboratories announced it would shed its manufacturing unit, which has a focus on cell and gene therapies. And, according to its CEO Birgit Girshick, other companies are likely considering doing ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new technique that allows them to observe how individual cells manufacture proteins during aging, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the hidden molecular activity of stem cells in living tissue. As a result of the research, conducted at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Switzerland, scientists were able to observe aging unfold inside individual epidermal stem cells.

Researchers at the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä have used artificial intelligence to speed up the analysis of colorectal cancer samples and predict the functioning of the cells' DNA repair mechanism.

One of China’s most prolific gene editing companies has raised its biggest round of funding yet, ahead of plans to go public in Hong Kong. While most gene editing companies in the US trimmed their ...

It’s slimmer, lighter, and more durable. But the real upgrade is Oura’s push into AI-powered health insights and proactive monitoring.

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A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals that human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) possess a remarkable capability to “remember” inflammatory stress experienced during severe infections. This memory, encoded in a unique transcriptional program termed the HSC inflammatory memory (HSC-iM), was uncovered through cutting-edge single-cell multi-omic profiling. The research sheds light on how past inflammatory insults […]

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In the evolving landscape of aging and longevity research, the recent GIMM Festival has emerged as a pivotal forum where leading scientists converge to tackle some of the most perplexing questions about the biological mechanisms that dictate lifespan and healthspan. This event transcends traditional scientific meetings by fostering a cross-disciplinary dialogue among molecular biologists, geneticists, […]

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A sizable proportion of past gains in human life expectancy arose from public health strategies to better control the burden of infectious disease. Exposure to pathogens doesn't just increase the risk of an earlier death due to fatal infection, but also places a burden of damage on the survivors that increases late life mortality. Researchers here discuss what the future of public health strategies might look like in the context of the present great shift from medicine that does not even consider the causes of aging to a medical community that will increasingly proficiently and deliberately target the causes of aging to slow and reverse age-related degeneration. Over the past century, the most transformative gains in human health and longevity did not arise from high-technology […]

Cambridge scientists have grown miniature circuits in the lab that mimic how the brain and spinal cord connect up, which underlies our movements. They used this model to show how damage to these connections previously considered 'irreversible' could, in fact, be reversible.

Dr. Omar Lateef, the president and CEO of Rush University System for Health; Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global; and Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, a sponsor of the event, spoke at a TIME100 AI Leadership Forum.

arXiv:2605.28736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study presents the first evaluation of general-purpose imitation learning for surgeon-robot collaborative assistance in open surgery, targeting suture following: the grab-pull-release motion an assistant performs at every stitch. We collect 160 teleoperated demonstrations (32,374 frames) on an open-source robot arm, benchmark four architecturally diverse imitation learning policies (ACT, Diffusion Policy, SmolVLA, $\pi_0$) across 28 trained models evaluated in 32 configurations along three clinically motivated dimensions: dataset size, camera viewpoint, and background variation. Our results demonstrate that under ideal conditions, the four policies achieve $50$-$75\%$ task success, with depth error as the dominant failure mode across all architectures. Among all policies, $\pi_0$ achieves the strongest results with a pretrained vision-language backbone, demonstrating superior data efficiency, greater robustness to background

arXiv:2605.28148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid development of LLMs coupled with the introduction of Model Context Protocol (MCP) has revolutionized how intelligent agents interact with APIs through deterministic and structured methods \cite{ModelContextProtocolIntro2025}. While some existing systems like AutoMCP attempt to automate a previously completely manual process of generating MCP servers, they fail to address the recurring challenge of maintaining synchronization between evolving enterprise-level APIs and their corresponding MCP toolset implementation \cite{mastouri2025makingrestapisagentready}. This paper introduces DeltaMCP, a specification-aware, incremental regeneration tool for enterprise-grade MCP servers. DeltaMCP enables developers to only update the affected tooling of MCP servers, given a new release of it's corresponding service's OpenAPI specification. Using Azure REST API specifications as the evaluation dataset, DeltaMCP is benchmarked against baseline

After nearly two decades of life-threatening illness, repeated complications, and organ failure, 33-year-old Briana Dery of Twining, Mich., is looking ahead to a healthy future, after successfully undergoing one of the rarest and most complex procedures in modern medicine. On January 14, 2026, she became the first person in Michigan to receive a new intestinal transplant and a new kidney in a single combined transplant operation.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit flies, enabling researchers to better study how genes contribute to development and disease.

In a groundbreaking development at the intersection of robotics and music, researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have unveiled a robotic hand capable of learning to play a melody after a mere two minutes of self-guided practice. Unlike traditional robots that require painstakingly long training periods or vast datasets, this ‘Musician Hand’ learns […]

A groundbreaking new study conducted by researchers at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University reveals that geography remains a critical determinant in lung transplant donor access across the United States. Despite significant updates to the national lung allocation system aimed at optimizing organ distribution, disparities rooted in geographic location persist, impacting patient outcomes and […]

A new viewpoint article published in JMIR Mental Health warns that artificial intelligence (AI) systems used in mental health settings may inherit and reinforce unreliable human input unless new safeguards are adopted. The paper, titled "When AI Colludes: Clinical Reliability of Training and Preference Data as a Trustworthy-AI Criterion," calls for the "clinical reliability" of training data to become a core standard for trustworthy AI.

A simple blood test could one day replace invasive biopsies for detecting acute cellular rejection (ACR) after lung transplantation, an American Journal of Transplantation study finds.

The discarded fragments of this creature apparently refuse to die, leading researchers to claim immortality

CRISPR-Cas разрушила гены шига-токсина кишечной палочки

ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the ElevenLabs Iconic Marketplace for commercial licensing and on the Eleven Reader app, where fans […] This story continues at The Next Web

The urology unit of the Irccs Bonino Pulejo of Messina brought its clinical results to the American Urological Association (AUA) congress in Washington and obtained ... Read more L’article From Messina to Washington: the “tailored” robotic surgery of the IRCCS Bonino Pulejo that saves the kidney est apparu en premier sur Odnako.

A new study could help identify promising treatments to extend the human lifespan, researchers say

Researchers from Sciensano, partner of the DARWIN project, have published a new paper in npj Science of Food addressing one of the key scientific and regulatory challenges linked to genome-edited (GE) organisms, their reliable detection and identification in complex food mixtures.

A new viewpoint article published in JMIR Mental Health warns that artificial intelligence (AI) systems used in mental health settings may inherit and reinforce unreliable human input unless new safeguards are adopted.

After a flood of complaints about the Google Health app that just replaced Fitbit, Google has responded with a list of changes that will roll out starting this week. @verge We tried Fitbit Air's AI coach, and it turned out to be far more instructive than expected. The Verge's Victoria Song joins us on The Vergecast to talk through Google's new $99 fitness tracker and what it gets right. #Vergecast ♬ original sound - The Verge Google is addressing some of the biggest complaints users had, like the Today dashboard that can only show users' chosen health metrics in the top half of the screen. Soon, Google says it will "make it easier … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Health roadmap details bug fixes and improvements amid backlash from Fitbit users  9to5GoogleGoogle Health brings your data into one place, on your terms  blog.googleGoogle Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead  The VergeFitbit Air launches with issues for early users  Tech AdvisorGoogle Health’s rough Fitbit takeover is already forcing a major cleanup plan  Digital Trends

Google Health roadmap details bug fixes and improvements amid backlash from Fitbit users  9to5GoogleGoogle Health brings your data into one place, on your terms  blog.googleGoogle Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead  The VergeFitbit Air launches with issues for early users  Tech AdvisorGoogle Health’s rough Fitbit takeover is already forcing a major cleanup plan  Digital Trends

China has unveiled an artificial intelligence platform for drug discovery that can screen a vast library of chemical compounds, cutting the initial drug screening phase from months or years down to tens of seconds. Developers said they expected the system to provide a novel method for identifying lead molecules to treat tumours, neurodegenerative conditions, rare diseases and emerging infectious diseases, as well as possibly speeding up drug research during public health crises. Called GalaxyVS,...

Google Health has replaced the Fitbit app and, with that, the major redesign has rolled out widely. Many Fitbit users are frustrated with the change and, in a new roadmap, we’re getting an overview of fixes and improvements coming to the Google Health app. more…

Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.

Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.

An eye exam produced a good distance prescription and a terrible computer prescription. Here's how AI helped decode the numbers and expose the mismatch.

Ina Fried / Axios: Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases a protein-structure prediction model and more, calling it “a world model” of proteins  —  Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, on Wednesday released what it says amounts to “a world model of protein biology.”

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Researchers will document patient experiences and barriers to care across British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Google is responding to criticism of its Fitbit replacement with a cleanup roadmap for Google Health, starting with workout fixes this week and expanding into sleep, nutrition, Coach, and data-sharing updates.

Increasing attention in the research community is being given to age-related dysfunction of microglia in the brain as a contribution to loss of cognitive function and onset and progression of neurodegenerative conditions. Microglia are innate immune cells analogous to macrophages elsewhere in the body, responsible not just for defense against pathogens, but also maintenance of neural tissue and supporting the function of neural networks. With age a growing population of microglia become senescent or otherwise inflammatory and disruptive to normal function of brain tissue. Given that established methods exist to either selectively destroy senescent microglia or completely clear the microglial population to allow it to reconsitute itself over a period of weeks, it seems that there should be more in the way of efforts to […]

Hong Kong health authorities have deployed an AI chatbot developed by a local university to help residents quit smoking, after missing their target despite a clampdown on tobacco products. The Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office also said on Wednesday that the city’s smoking rate had dropped to 8.5 per cent as of last year, one of the lowest among developed economies. The office unveiled its “Chat to Quit” chatbot pilot initiative as part of its annual “Quit in June” campaign. The drive also...

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Google Health Premium joins AI Pro as weekly email redesigned  9to5GoogleGoogle Health brings your data into one place, on your terms  blog.googleGoogle Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead  The VergeFitbit Air launches with issues for early users  Tech AdvisorGoogle reveals massive list of fixes and new features coming to the Google Health app  Android Authority

Google Health Premium joins AI Pro as weekly email redesigned  9to5GoogleGoogle Health brings your data into one place, on your terms  blog.googleGoogle Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead  The VergeFitbit Air launches with issues for early users  Tech AdvisorGoogle reveals massive list of fixes and new features coming to the Google Health app  Android Authority

arXiv:2605.26747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have brought huge improvements to Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can be applied to general-purpose tasks. However, their application to textual or spoken medical consultations is still an open research problem. This paper proposes MeDial-Speech, a novel speech dataset for training and evaluating Med-AIs that can carry out consultations with patients. It was collected in realistic environments from robot-patient and doctor-patient dialogues, contains 111+ hours of speech data (without data augmentation), and covers four health conditions: Lewy body dementia, heart failure, shoulder pain, and angina. In addition, we propose a dialogue benchmark via sentence selection (with 20 options) to evaluate three state-of-the-art LLMs: GPT-5 mini, DeepSeek-V3, and Claude Sonnet 4. Experimental results reveal that Claude Sonnet 4 is the best in sentence selection, with 71.1% accuracy using manual transcriptions and

A phase 1 NEJM interim analysis found that a single infusion of the investigational base-editing therapy VERVE-102 produced dose-dependent reductions in circulating PCSK9 protein and LDL cholesterol in adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia or premature coronary artery disease.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — In February 2026, Michigan State University Extension partnered with the MSU Center for Regenerative Agriculture to offer a special webinar series on regenerative agriculture. These sessions brought together farmers, educators and landowners who are interested in healthier soils, stronger farms and more resilient rural communities. The series introduced six key principles […] The post Regenerative Agriculture in Action: Grazing in Cropping Systems appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

After nearly two decades of life-threatening illness, repeated complications, and organ failure, 33-year-old Briana Dery of Twining, Mich., is looking ahead to a healthy future, after successfully undergoing one of the rarest and most complex procedures in modern medicine.

Besides the new mobile app fully rolling out today, Google Health is joining the Google AI Pro subscription. more…

Space embryos: China launches lab-grown human cells into orbit to study reproduction  YahooChina Sends Artificial Embryo Models To Orbit To Test Human Reproduction In Space  NDTVBypassing the 14-day rule: China’s ‘artificial embryos’ exploit a double loophole in orbit  WIONChina just sent human artificial embryos into space, and the results could change humanity’s future  The Times of IndiaIs Human Reproduction Possible in Space? China Sends Artificial Embryo Model to Orbit to Check, All You Need to Know  The Sunday Guardian

Space embryos: China launches lab-grown human cells into orbit to study reproduction  YahooChina Sends Artificial Embryo Models To Orbit To Test Human Reproduction In Space  NDTVBypassing the 14-day rule: China’s ‘artificial embryos’ exploit a double loophole in orbit  WIONChina just sent human artificial embryos into space, and the results could change humanity’s future  The Times of IndiaIs Human Reproduction Possible in Space? China Sends Artificial Embryo Model to Orbit to Check, All You Need to Know  The Sunday Guardian

DARPA envisions a future where "medicbots" link up to drag wounded personnel to safety, inject lifesaving drugs and form splits around broken limbs.

DARPA envisions a future where "medicbots" link up to drag wounded personnel to safety, inject lifesaving drugs and form splits around broken limbs.

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead  The VergeGoogle Health brings your data into one place, on your terms  blog.googleFitbit Air launches with issues for early users  Tech AdvisorGoogle Health 5.0 rolling out with new stats widget on Android  9to5GoogleGoogle Health for Android rollout was sped up as Fitbit Air buyers were struggling to pair  9to5Google

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead  The VergeGoogle Health brings your data into one place, on your terms  blog.googleFitbit Air launches with issues for early users  Tech AdvisorGoogle Health 5.0 rolling out with new stats widget on Android  9to5GoogleGoogle Health for Android rollout was sped up as Fitbit Air buyers were struggling to pair  9to5Google

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to identify nearly two dozen antiviral compounds that could potentially treat a rare species of Ebola virus (Bundibugyo virus) currently affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel  —  A trio of former Palantir executives who helped spearhead that company's Life Sciences practice have founded a startup called Perceptic …

In a groundbreaking advancement for spinal cord injury (SCI) therapy, researchers have developed a novel treatment paradigm that synergistically combines electroacupuncture with human spinal cord-derived neural progenitor cells (hsc-NPCs) seeded on ordered collagen scaffolds. This integrative approach addresses the multifaceted challenges of SCI, aiming to restore neural electrical conduction, mitigate secondary muscle atrophy, and prevent […]

The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we've spent more time with it), Google has officially replaced it with Google Health, as previously announced, and many of the responses we've seen so far are full of confusion, frustration, and requests to get the old app back. One post on Reddit calls out a common issue, saying, "I can't even completely fill up my home screen. They only have 2 large tiles available and I can't just scroll down to see everything." The landing page has a small section up top showing steps and some other basic stats, but part of the app's main … Read the full story at The Verge.

Incumbent small- and medium-size partners can “do a lot of the legwork” around gene-edited crops, say F&A Next panelists. The post How to sell the next wave of gene-edited crops? Let the little guys do it appeared first on AgFunderNews.

In recent years, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare has seen remarkable advancements, yet one of the more challenging domains remains psychiatric care, where the intricacies of human emotion and mental health conditions demand nuance and empathy in patient interactions. Understanding this complexity, a consortium of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of […]

After three FDA rejections dating back to 2023, Outlook Therapeutics said the agency has reversed course regarding its reformulated version of Avastin for the eye condition known as wet AMD. "The FDA concluded that substantial ...

"Mammograms hold significant information about a women's heart health, which we can now discover using AI."

In a groundbreaking advancement poised to redefine the future of surgical care, 3D-printed anatomical models are emerging as indispensable tools for improving surgical outcomes. This innovative fusion of digital imaging and additive manufacturing technology offers an unprecedented level of precision and personalization in pre-surgical planning, implant design, and medical education. The technology’s ability to replicate […]

A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggests that an experimental gene therapy could help protect the brain from the damage and cognitive decline linked to TDP-43-related proteinopathy, a type of neurodegeneration that is a major driver of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and is also common in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study is published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.

People often say that seeking psychiatric care can feel intimidating. Patients may feel burdened when they first open up about their emotional distress, while medical staff must accurately understand a patient's extensive history and symptoms within limited consultation time. Korean researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology that supports the initial psychiatric interview process, the first step in psychiatric care.

The Google Health app is replacing the Fitbit app, with the update having started rolling out over the past week. As Fitbit Air pre-orders land on doorsteps, Google has confirmed that it has sped up the rollout since it is required to pair the new fitness tracker. more…

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has issued a damning verdict on Department of Defence planning for the life-extension program.

Fitbit Air Review: Health Tracking For The AI Generation  EngadgetGoogle’s Fitbit Air Gives Whoop Some Serious Competition  Bloomberg.comFitbit Air Review: Is It Really a Smartwatch Killer?  CNETFitbit Air is the best hardware offering from Google in years  Android PoliceGoogle’s New Screen-Less Fitbit Air Proves Less Is More  WIRED

Fitbit Air Review: Health Tracking For The AI Generation  EngadgetGoogle’s Fitbit Air Gives Whoop Some Serious Competition  Bloomberg.comFitbit Air Review: Is It Really a Smartwatch Killer?  CNETFitbit Air is the best hardware offering from Google in years  Android PoliceGoogle’s New Screen-Less Fitbit Air Proves Less Is More  WIRED

The Fitbit Air is a serious rival to Whoop and other screenless wearable trackers thanks to its solid hardware, comprehensive software and competitive pricing.

People often say that seeking psychiatric care can feel intimidating. Patients may feel burdened when they first open up about their emotional distress, while medical staff must accurately understand a patient's extensive history and symptoms within limited consultation time.

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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have developed a way to use holograms to guide laser light for ultra-efficient, fast, and precise volumetric 3D printing. The innovation enables cell-compatible, high-resolution 3D printing at scales suitable for biomedical applications. Last year, EPFL scientists published an improved approach to tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing (TVAM): a 3D printing method that uses laser light to harden a rotating vial of photosensitive resin into a desired shape. In that work, the researchers used holograms to encode 3D forms by modulating the alignment (phase) of light waves rather than their brightness (amplitude), as previous methods had done,...

Eli Lilly said a base editing gene therapy from its purchase of Verve Therapeutics delivered additional positive results in a Phase 1b trial, paving the way for a mid-stage test by year’s ...

It remains an open question as to whether anything discovered about the roots of individual variation in life expectancy within a species will give rise to usefully effective interventions to treat aging. Some researchers hold up the passage of late life aging in centenarians as a goal to aim for - but centenarians, while having evaded death for longer than most, are nonetheless greatly impacted by degenerative aging and exhibit significant dysfunction and mortality rates. We must aim higher, to create therapies that produce results that do not happen naturally in old people, such as comprehensive clearance of senescent cells in aged tissues, replacement of damaged mitochondria with functional mitochondria, and so forth. Actual repair of dysfunction, not just slowing it down a little. Ageing […]

Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow their sperm in the lab. Columnist Michael Le Page suspects this technique will have to be combined with gene editing if it is to help many men

Researchers hope the work will help identify affordable, effective drugs to treat conditions like MND.