Articles by

Emily Mullin

A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans

The latest brain-computer interface could help people recover from severe depression. Motif Neurotech announced Monday that the...

AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has already revolutionized scientists’ understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to...

A Startup Says It Grew Human Sperm in a Lab—and Used It to Make Embryos

A startup out of Utah, Paterna Biosciences, says it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a...

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate...

No One Knows Where US Vaccine Policy Goes Next

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pursued an aggressive overhaul of federal vaccine...

A New Implant Aims to Rewire the Brain to Help Stroke Patients

Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability, with roughly two-thirds of survivors experiencing significant...

FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 Pill

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new obesity pill called Foundayo. Taken once...

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant

Galen Buckwalter didn’t hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a brain implant study...