A revolutionary treatment for autoimmune diseases could be on the horizon. Twenty-four million to 50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease, in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

Vaccines aimed at dampening the immune response could revolutionize the treatment of autoimmune diseases This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter.

In May 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to restrict research on viruses and pathogens called gain-of-function studies. The National Institutes of Health is now taking steps to ...

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Much of the discussion on cholesterol focuses on its negative effects. However, cholesterol helps with various bodily functions, including cell building and repair, bile production, and hormone ...

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We take for granted that an event in one part of the world cannot instantly affect what happens far away. This principle, which physicists call locality, was long regarded as a bedrock assumption ...

In psychological health research, a person’s ability to think, otherwise known as their cognitive functions, is a crucial subject of research. The cognitive functions are a variety of different, but ...