Critics Blast Star-Studded Advisory Board of Anti-Aging Company
Critics are assailing seven Nobel Prize winners and two dozen other high-profile scientists for lending their names and images to a New...
Aging Is Reversible—at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice
New research suggests it is possible to slow or even reverse aging, at least in mice, by undoing changes in gene activity—the same kinds...
The Anti-Aging Pill
An anti-aging startup hopes to elude the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and death at the same time. The company, Elysium Health, says...
Rejuvenating the Chance of Motherhood?
Last April, Omar and Natasha Rajani rented a hall, invited 130 guests, and hired a magician to entertain the little ones. In Natasha’s...
“Three-Parent Baby” Procedure Faces New Hurdle
A promising technique to prevent mothers from passing on devastating mitochondrial diseases was thrown a biological curve ball this week:...
Saving Ava: When a cancer drug shortage imperiled a toddler, her mom got to work
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The drug that Alyssa Luciano fought so hard to get for her little girl was ready. Two nurses held syringes....
Analysis identifies lethal strain of anthrax the Soviets produced as bioweapon
On the first Monday in April 1979, a wind blew south through a Siberian city called Sverdlovsk. A few days later, people and sheep began...
Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise in Small Trial
A new drug trial that some researchers are calling the most promising yet in the fight against Alzheimer’s suggests it may be possible to...
The arms belonged to someone else. Grueling work made them his own
BOSTON — In the lobby of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a young boy stares at Will Lautzenheiser in his wheelchair. He tugs on his mom’s...
Giant coral reef shows new signs of life
In 2003, researchers declared Coral Castles dead.On the floor of a remote island lagoon halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, the giant reef...
