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WHO's First Global Forum of 800+ Collaborating Centres Signals a Shift in How Science Gets Done
The WHO just held its first-ever global forum for 800+ Collaborating Centres. What took so long, and what changes now?
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Dual NAD+ Strategy Reverses Muscle and Bone Aging in Mice, Raising Human Questions
A mouse study combining NMN and apigenin restored muscle and bone function in aged animals, pointing to a systems-level rethink of how NAD+ decline drives aging.
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Life Biosciences Brings Cellular Reprogramming to Human Trials, Testing the FDA's Limits
Life Biosciences is bringing cellular reprogramming into human trials, quietly testing whether the FDA's view of aging as inevitable is finally shifting.
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The Sterile Neutrino Is Dead. Physics Has No Replacement Ready.
The sterile neutrino was supposed to solve several of physics' deepest puzzles. Now the experiments designed to find it have ruled it out, and the anomalies remain unexplained.
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The Alzheimer's Gene Rewires the Brain Long Before Memory Fades
APOE4 makes hippocampal neurons hyperexcitable before symptoms appear, suggesting Alzheimer's damage begins far earlier than clinical trials are designed to catch.
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6 Apr 2026
Scientists Find a Biological Target That Could Halt Post-Surgical Delirium in Older Adults
Post-operative delirium is one of medicine's most underappreciated crises. It strikes quietly, often within hours of a patient waking from surgery, and for olde
3 Apr 2026
A single gene therapy injection is reversing congenital deafness within weeks
For most of human history, being born deaf meant a lifetime of navigating a world designed around sound. Cochlear implants changed some of that calculus, but th
26 Mar 2026
Zombie Cells and the Science Trying to Clear Them Before They Kill You
There is something almost paradoxical about a cell that refuses to die. It stops dividing, loses its purpose, and yet lingers in tissue like an uninvited guest
25 Mar 2026
Two Fatty Acids Show Promise in Clearing Senescent Cells Linked to Aging
Senescent cells have long occupied an uncomfortable position in biology: they stop dividing, refuse to die, and quietly poison their neighbors. Now, a new study
25 Mar 2026
String Theory's Endless War: Why Physics Still Can't Quit Its Most Controversial Idea
String theory has been physics' most glamorous and most contested framework for nearly half a century. It promises to unify quantum mechanics and general relati
25 Mar 2026
WHO's New TB Diagnostics Could Reshape How the World's Deadliest Infection Is Found
Tuberculosis kills more people each year than almost any other infectious disease on the planet, yet for decades the standard tools used to find it have barely
25 Mar 2026
Why American Cities Keep Building Bike Networks That Exclude Older Riders
Anne Lusk has spent years studying something most urban planners overlook: what happens to cycling infrastructure when you design it for the young and able-bodi
25 Mar 2026
CRISPR Builds Cancer-Fighting Cells Inside the Body, Skipping the Lab Entirely
The standard playbook for CAR T cell therapy is expensive, slow, and brutally demanding on patients. Blood is drawn, T cells are extracted, genetically reprogra
25 Mar 2026
Biological Age Tests Are Booming. The Science Behind Them Is Still Catching Up
Every few months, a new consumer wellness company arrives promising something that sounds almost magical: send in a cheek swab or a few drops of blood, and they
22 Mar 2026
Leprosy Still Infects 200,000 People a Year. The World Keeps Looking Away.
Leprosy is among the oldest diseases in recorded human history, appearing in ancient texts from India, China, and Egypt. It has outlasted empires, survived the
