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‘Connectoids’ use microfluid channels to recapitulate and study neural connections.
By Elie Dolgin May 14, 2025
With organoids, assembloids and a growing bioengineering toolkit, scientists are pushing the limits of human brain models.
Picture of scientist handling mRNA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vaccine protesters.
By Elie Dolgin May 9, 2025
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.
Two children licking lollipopos
By Elie Dolgin May 7, 2025
3D structure of the tongue’s sweet-sensing protein could guide future food designs.
By Elie Dolgin February 12, 2025
Next-generation obesity drugs will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy — aiming to deliver greater weight loss with fewer side effects.
Hand holding two blue pills
By Elie Dolgin January 30, 2025
The FDA’s nod for suzetrigine bolsters confidence in the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy to target sodium channels.
Mouse brain tissue imaged using expansion microscopy.
By Elie Dolgin January 13, 2025
How a tissue-swelling method brought super-resolution imaging to the masses.
Woman's face with visor-style sunglasses shining light into her blue eyes.
By Elie Dolgin October 2, 2024
Pulses of light and sound seem to have beneficial effects. But some argue it is too soon to market experimental devices.
Image of brain inside a head
By Elie Dolgin September 26, 2024
The medication is the first in decades to have a different mode of action than do current drugs, achieving better symptom relief with fewer side effects.
By Elie Dolgin June 11, 2024
Moderna employees build RNA vaccines tailored to an individual’s tumour at a facility in Norwood, Massachusetts.
Kids getting an eye exam
By Elie Dolgin May 29, 2024
Time spent outdoors is the best defence against rising rates of short-sightedness, but scientists are searching for other ways to reverse the troubling trend.
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