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AI Chatbots—With Careful Guardrails—Can Help Treat Your Depression And Anxiety
Mental health support is sorely lacking around the globe. Properly developed AI chatbots offer a 24/7 tool to lean on in the absence of a therapist.
The Gut Microbiome May Unlock New Treatment Paradigms For Neurological Diseases
Research on the gut/brain axis is fueling the development of new therapies for neurological conditions including Dravet syndrome, ALS, and autism-related irritability.
Phage Therapy To Defeat Superbugs Is Taking Off
Phage therapy — bacteria-killing viruses — might be the most important alternative and adjunct to antibiotics.
Novel Approaches To Treat Parkinson’s Disease May Signal A Turning Point
Encouraging developments include surgically implanted dopamine-producing neurons derived from stem cells, novel protein therapeutics, and new tools for early detection.
The Critical Fix We Need To Rebuild Our Broken Antibiotic Pipeline
Superbug infections kill more people now than HIV/AIDS or malaria. We need new antibiotics and other drugs, but developers lack incentives. A new policy could fix that.
Ten New Foods Coming To Our Plates In The Next Ten Years
From cultivated pork dumplings to 3D printed cake, a gene-edited salad and carbon-neutral chicken, here are some of the future foods on their way to our kitchens.
Farms Of The Future Will Grow Food While Restoring The Environment: Here’s How
Future farms will rely on new technologies like CRISPR gene editing, nitrogen fixation and carbon-capturing crops to grow more food with fewer resources and less harm.
The Next Generation Of Food Allergy Therapies May Be Coming Soon
How biotech companies and scientists are developing better therapies for food allergy sufferers, including those with peanut, tree nut, milk and shellfish allergies
A New Tomato And A Potential New Class Of Medicine Share This Fascinating Technology
The promises of epigenetic editing to advance both precision medicines and crops. Reducing high cholesterol and a new tomato are some of the applications.
Cell Therapy Is Poised To Break Through, If We Solve These Hurdles Now
Thirteen years ago, the first patients were treated in a landmark cell therapy trial that was one of the biggest breakthroughs in cancer treatment. What’s next?
