Articles by

Tina Hesman Saey

New dietary guidelines flip the food pyramid

American dietary guidelines have gotten an overhaul. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department...

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

Chris Buck stands barefoot in his kitchen holding a glass bottle of unfiltered Lithuanian farmhouse ale. He...

Funding chaos may unravel decades of biomedical research

Megan Murray has been in limbo. The Harvard University epidemiologist and infectious diseases doctor has grants from...

The AI model OpenFold3 takes a crucial step in making protein predictions

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting...

Most women get uterine fibroids. This researcher wants to know why

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at...

Scientists made human egg cells from skin cells

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in...

More young U.S. adults report trouble with memory and focus

More U.S. adults than ever report having serious trouble concentrating, remembering or making decisions. In 2023, more...

What makes chocolate taste so good? It’s the microbes

Like wine and cheese, chocolate has terroir, a sense of the place it was grown. Each bonbon...