Genome Sequencing Cost Curve For most of the history of medicine, doctors have been limited to observing symptoms and trying to alleviate them. This has been...
The additive manufacturing sector continues to show near-limitless potential. Innovations have taken 3D printers from creating customized figurines all the way to printing entire neighborhoods, working...
Precision Medicine Is the Future Of Healthcare When it comes to applied hard sciences, a source of progress has been more precise measurements and tools. This...
Finally, Useful Gene Editing Every organism's life is controlled by its genetic code, which contains the “manual” for building the proteins performing all biological functions. As...
Changing Surgery As long as medicine has been practiced, surgery has been a key tool for doctors to cure countless ailments and save lives from traumatic...
The Spectacular Rise Of Semaglutide Seemingly out of nowhere, semaglutide has become the blockbuster drug of the decade. It was first developed by Novo Nordisk in...
Novel Immunotherapy Most modern cancer therapies aim to train the body’s immune system to detect and attack cancer cells efficiently. This method even won the 2018...
Bacteria Striking Back Bacterial infections are much less deadly than they used to be before the introduction of antibiotics. “Before we had antibiotics, infections like scarlet...
The mRNA Revolution When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the world's medical community initially prepared for a disaster of the scale of the Spanish Flu, which struck...
Diabetes Complications Diabetes is a complex disease affecting hundreds of millions of people. While treatments like artificial insulin have saved their lives, diabetes is still decreasing...
The CRISPR Revolution CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a recently discovered tool for genetic editing. It allows for very precise and directed gene editing,...
Better View For Scientific Insights Medical research is highly dependent on studies on animal models, and our progress in medicine has been deeply influenced by better...
The Key To Old Age Long seen as a fatality or the mere expression of the accumulation of oxidation and genetic damage, aging is increasingly understood...
The New Wonder Drug: Semaglutide Semaglutide is quickly shaping up to become the wonder drug of the decade. It was initially developed as an anti-diabetic medication...
New Methods For Drug Discovery Discovering new drugs has become increasingly expensive and complex in the last few decades, with new therapies costing more than a...
