It's not a novel molecule, and that's actually good news.

The results were so promising one clinician started weeping.

For decades, doctors have tried to treat depression with electricity. Now, a Houston startup wants to make that idea smaller, less invasive, and potentially usable from home. Motif Neurotech has received FDA approval for an Investigational Device Exemption, allowing it to begin an early feasibility study of an experimental brain-stimulation device for people with treatment-resistant […]

__Scott Imbrie vividly remembers the first time he used a robotic arm to shake someone’s hand and felt the robotic limb as if it were his own. “I still get goosebumps when I think about that initial contact,” he says. “It’s just unexplainable.” The moment came courtesy of a brain implant: an array of electrodes that let him control a robotic arm and receive tactile sensations back to the…

A single guided dose of psilocybin vastly outperforms standard nicotine patches in quitting smoking.

DIPG used to be a death sentence. Now there might be some hope.

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I’m writing to you as if you can still read these words and understand them. I know our time together is coming to an end, but when I’m back home like I promised, I hope we can sit on a park bench by the water, and I’ll read this to you in the sunshine. Lately, I’ve […]

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A new Trojan horse drug is helping the immune system find and kill prostate cancer cells for the first time.

A single infusion of stem cells helped frail older adults walk significantly farther.

A cross-institution collaboration used over 90 stem cell lines to track early brain development.

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A new heart disease drug works just as well as expensive shots but comes in a simple pill.