Credit: Keith Chambers/SPL Symptoms for 16 people with multiple sclerosis or other autoimmune conditions improved after receiving a treatment that produced disease-fighting immune cells inside their bodies, according to results1 from a small clinical trial. Researchers say the results are exciting but the treatment needs to be tested in more people. The latest trial, published
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda is famous for the endangered mountain gorillas that inhabit its lush, misty highlands. It’s also home to around 120 other species of mammal, 350 types of bird and hundreds of plant varieties — and, on its borders, people and livestock. That’s a recipe for what epidemiologists call spillover,
A microscope image of a mitochondrion, artificially coloured in green and red. The organelles were extracted for a retinal transplant from the person’s own leg muscles. Credit: K. R. Porter/SPL Scientists have extracted mitochondria from a woman’s leg muscles and injected them into the vitreous fluid of her eyes in an attempt to treat severe
David Fajgenbaum discovered how to repurpose a drug to treat his own rare disease and has dedicated much of his career to repurposing drugs. Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative As a child, molecular biologist Francesca Granata had episodes of skin pain so excruciating that she could not bear even a hug from
Physicians test new narcolepsy treatments by checking whether the drugs help people to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night.Credit: Lucia Graphus/Alamy Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug designed to treat the root cause of narcolepsy, a condition that affects millions of people by causing extreme sleepiness
Fidji Simo, the former OpenAI executive who cofounded the biomedical startup ChronicleBio, said she believes AI can eventually cure all diseases, but smarter models alone won’t get us there. In an X post on Monday, Simo responded to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who wrote over the weekend that AI companies need to deliver concrete breakthroughs
