Scientists and surgeons at Duke University are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for pioneering a combination heart-thymus transplant procedure.
The invention of birth control provided women with a degree of reproductive freedom that past generations never had, and today there is a great variety of options: pills, rings, gels, vaginal sponges, long-acting implants, surgery, and specialized condoms. Men, on the other hand, only have condoms and the surgical,…
Scientists at the Population Council, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and elsewhere are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing an innovative male contraceptive gel.
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for their experimental breast cancer vaccine.
A new study suggests that a popular artificial sweetener may not be as harmless as thought. The researchers say they found evidence in both animals and humans that the sugar alcohol erythritol, commonly included in keto diets, can raise certain people’s risk of cardiovascular disease. Importantly, however, the study…
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are sounding the alarm over a diarrhea-causing superbug. The CDC’s data shows a noticeable rise in extensively drug-resistant strains of Shigella bacteria over the past half-decade. Though these infections are typically not severe, antibiotics are needed to…
Donate Life America, the nonprofit that works to maintain the National Donate Life Registry, has decided to create a set of polyhedral dice that symbolize the eight organs and tissues that can be donated in order to save another person’s life.
A rare but sometimes fatal tickborne infection may be expanding its range in the U.S., local and federal health officials warn in a report this week. They say that a case of Heartland virus led to a man’s death in 2021. The infection is thought to have been caught in either Virginia or Maryland—a region of the…
The milk wars may soon come to an end. In draft guidelines released this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that soy and other plant-based milk substitutes can continue to be labeled milk. The agency found that customers in general aren’t confused by the current nomenclature and could easily tell…
Apple is reportedly close to creating a noninvasive glucose test for diabetics through a new sensor on its Apple Watch.