Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures(nature.com)

99 points by pcrh 3 years ago | 54 comments

One man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed its onset(nature.com)

168 points by deepzn 3 years ago | 53 comments

US could soon approve MDMA therapy(nature.com)

385 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 352 comments

Nature news feature on the prospect of US FDA approval of MDMA-assisted therapy and the emerging era of psychedelic medicine.

What Rosalind Franklin contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure(nature.com)

140 points by Feuilles_Mortes 3 years ago | 111 comments

Integrated Information Theory labelled pseudoscience(nature.com)

25 points by joak 3 years ago | 39 comments

World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission(nature.com)

110 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 32 comments

Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer(theatlantic.com)

394 points by cowboysauce 2 years ago | 139 comments

An Atlantic magazine feature on how the cystic fibrosis treatment Trikafta has extended patients' lives and what living longer means for them.

Trump fires NSF's oversight board(science.org)

356 points by skullone 6 months ago | 177 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that President Trump fired the National Science Foundation's oversight board, the National Science Board.

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study(health.ucdavis.edu)

337 points by gmays 7 months ago | 64 comments

UC Davis Health news article reporting a study finding that the first in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe.

New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times(economist.com)

413 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 143 comments

Economist article reporting that a promising pancreatic cancer drug may be the first of a new class of treatments targeting a cancer master switch.

Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment(nytimes.com)

1122 points by jbredeche 1 year ago | 470 comments

New York Times article about a baby treated with the first personalized gene-editing therapy for a rare genetic disorder.

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens(med.stanford.edu)

319 points by phony-account 7 months ago | 114 comments

Stanford Medicine news article about a universal vaccine designed to protect against multiple respiratory infections and allergens.