HIV treatment may improve some signs of biological ageing — but claims of becoming ‘nearly four years younger’ still need caution For decades, the biggest success in HIV care was turning a potentially fatal infection into a chronic, treatable conditi...
Continue readingMaths and statistics are becoming a core language of neuroscience — but elegant models still have to answer to the brain’s messy biology For a long time, thinking about the brain was almost the same thing as thinking about anatomy: neurones, synapses...
Continue readingA new mouse model may help explain why chronic muscle inflammation resists standard drugs — but the evidence provided does not yet confirm that mechanism Chronic muscle inflammation sits in a particularly frustrating corner of medicine. It is biologi...
Continue readingAn international consensus on robotic systems for stroke care could help bring order to a fast-growing field — but the evidence provided supports rehabilitation more than stroke treatment as a whole Few areas of health technology are growing with as...
Continue readingA reproductive justice framework may be crucial for addressing inequities in high-risk pregnancy care — but only if it becomes real access, not just rhetoric Few areas of health care expose the gap between medical technology and equity as clearly as...
Continue readingmRNA cancer vaccines may still destroy tumours even when one expected immune piece falters — but the exact mechanism is still unclear from the evidence provided Few areas of oncology are generating as much excitement right now as mRNA cancer vaccines...
Continue readingChronic inflammation may leave lasting marks on gut stem cells and help explain higher colorectal cancer risk — but the evidence provided here is not enough to confirm the link Few ideas are more important in cancer biology than this one: tumours do...
Continue readingDifferences in brain gene activity may help explain why some disorders affect men and women differently Few questions in neuroscience are as important — or as easy to oversimplify — as why some brain disorders affect men and women differently. For de...
Continue readingSongbird brains can generate new neurons — but that does not prove the human brain does the same on a similar scale Few ideas in neuroscience are as captivating as the possibility that the adult brain can continue generating new neurons. For a long t...
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