Health

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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

Healthcare

Organ regeneration could overcome liver failure, without a transplant

Patients wait from 30 days to over five years to receive a liver transplant in the U.S. What if the liver could regenerate itself instead?

Satdarshan (Paul) Singh Monga

Healthcare

New exercise study could find drugs that mimic working out

MIT and Harvard researchers mapped out many of the cells, genes, and cellular pathways that are modified by exercise or high-fat diet.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Medicine

Pfizer’s RSV vaccine for pregnant women protects newborns

Pfizer plans to begin the regulatory approval process by the end of the year.

B. David Zarley

Healthcare

These earbuds can tell if a newborn has hearing problems

A newborn hearing screening device made from off-the-shelf earbuds is as effective as expensive commercial options.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Understanding cancer’s “dark matter”

Researchers have discovered that cancer’s epigenome — changes to how genes are expressed that aren’t mutations — may play a key role in its behavior.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

FDA approves first-of-its-kind blood cancer treatment

The FDA has approved Johnson & Johnson’s Tecvayli, a new blood cancer treatment for people with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Kristin Houser

Food

What you eat can reprogram your genes

You are what you eat, and what your parents ate, and what their parents ate. An expert explains how the foods you eat can reprogram your genes.

Monica Dus

Medicine

Australian researchers have manufactured a living blood vessel

A blood vessel isn’t just a simple tube. Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed an implant capable of mimicking its complexities.

B. David Zarley

Aging

To avoid the worst effects of aging, we might need to exercise harder than we thought

To avoid one of the worst side effects of aging—bone, joint, and muscle pain—we might need to exercise a lot harder and more often.

University of Portsmouth

Wearables

New VR body suit lets you see inside your body while you exercise

A system for monitoring motion and muscle engagement could aid the elderly and athletes during physical rehabilitation.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL

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