New microchip based on biomolecules is no alien technology
Imagine it’s a few years in the future, and you get the sniffles. What is it? you nervously wonder. Is this yet another variant of the...
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- Jun 3
Is it time to cancel menopause?
Sometime when a woman is in her 40s or 50s, the supply of eggs she was born with gradually degrades and runs out. Hormones like estrogen,...
- May 23
Longevity in dog years
“I would do anything for my little pom poms to live longer,” tweeted Yasmeen Roumie in late March. She’d just registered two keen-eyed...
- Apr 19
As psychedelic drugs are poised to join the mainstream, what is the role of the prescriber?
The tpharmaceutical industry is constantly cutting research into psychiatric medicines, and the drug development pipeline for psychiatric...
- Apr 12, 2021
Mushrooms are waiting for their moment in medicine.
Every one of us will receive a handful of messages that change our lives forever. The latest for me came from my mother last September....
- Feb 12, 2021
The revolution will not be tenderized
We’re more than a decade into the alt-protein revolution. Will meatless beef ever replace the real thing? What’s in your burger in the...
- Dec 18, 2020
The Focus of His Energy
About seven years ago, Beverly McGowan noticed a tiny involuntary movement in the fingers of her right hand while she was on the...
- Nov 21, 2020
True human diversity is finally imaginable. Are you ready?
While we humans like to think of ourselves as wildly diverse, any alien coming to Earth and systematically cataloging its life forms...
- Nov 2, 2020
What is asexuality?
In a coffee shop, you notice someone new. Their hair, you think, or the way they wear their jeans, or the way their eyes crinkle when...
- Oct 31, 2020
Inside the movement to decolonize psychedelic pharma
María Sabina, a traditional Mexican healer, has gone down in psychedelic history as the woman to introduce magic mushrooms to the world....