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Insulin grown in lettuce can be taken orally

New synthetic insulin harvested from lettuce plants can be made cheaply, taken orally, and transported at room temperature.

Kristin Houser

Brain

Cancer med appears to prevent brain aneurysms

Japanese researchers have discovered that the cancer drug sunitinib can prevent the formation of brain aneurysms in mice.

Kristin Houser

“Nature’s own Ozempic” or berberine is all over social media

Does berberine work as well as Ozempic to help people lose weight? Social media seems to think so, but it’s not likely.

Rebecca Roubin and Nial Wheate and Tina Hinton

Fertility

For childhood cancer survivors, adult fertility isn’t a given

Experimental procedures offer beta solutions for girls, and more time to figure it out for boys.

Julia Sklar

Series| Future of Fertility

IVG: making babies from skin cells

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The designer babies of the future are closer than we think. With a new process called IVG, a person could essentially choose their baby’s traits, and same-sex couples could make a biological family.

Addiction

Addict-turned-neuroscientist on addiction and the brain

In our interview with neuroscientist Judith Grisel, she discusses the state of research on addiction and the brain, as well as society’s view of addicts.

B. David Zarley

Scientists are using AI to improve breast cancer screening

Computer scientists at MIT created a new algorithm for breast cancer screening to predict whether a patient will develop the disease in the next 5 years.

B. David Zarley

Event 201 works with private sector for global pandemic preparedness.

Public Health

The next pandemic is out there. Is the private sector ready?

Johns Hopkins' simulated, international catastrophe is helping business, government, and public health leaders improve global pandemic preparedness.

B. David Zarley

Public Health

Can mosquito-repellent clothes stop the deadliest animal on Earth?

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are War, Death, Famine, and Pestilence — what Revelation doesn't tell you is...

B. David Zarley

Drugs

Take a trip to Johns Hopkins' new psychedelic research center

Johns Hopkins is throwing its considerable clout behind the fast-growing field of psychedelic research, pouring $17 million into a research center to study the hallucinogenic drugs.

B. David Zarley

Virology

Could another measles outbreak open up Pandora’s Box?

The global resurgence of measles has sparked renewed scientific interest in this old foe. If the theory — which is contested — turns out to be true, a measles infection could be less an isolated bout of illness and more a Pandora’s box.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

mRNA vaccines could change everything in the fight against disease

Traditional methods of vaccination have come up against difficult challenges. They can also be expensive and time-consuming to produce. New RNA vaccines are faster, cheaper, and safer, and show great potential to meet evolving threats.

B. David Zarley

Healthcare

Bringing community healthcare to the people

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In partnership with Skoll Foundation

There is an urgent challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa: people are dying from treatable illnesses like malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. Now, people are turning to their neighbors for community health care.

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