Lessons for synthetic data from care.data’s past
Confidentiality The risk of breaching patient confidentiality through re-identification became a key tenet that opponents of care.data, including…
lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice
A slice from a normal human brain (left, artificially coloured) contrasts with a slice from the brain of…
Germany to allow some depressed patients to try psilocybin amid psychedelic medicine boom
Published on 31/07/2025 – 14:15 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Germany’s medicine regulator will allow certain patients with treatment-resistant depression to…
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to bring back the weed killer dicamba
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed allowing the weed killer dicamba for genetically engineered soybeans and cotton, two…
What to know about sugar versus high fructose corn syrup in Coke
President Donald Trump teased the announcement last week, but the Coca-Cola Co. confirmed it Tuesday: a cane sugar-sweetened…
Stem cell transplant without toxic preparation successfully treats genetic disease
“Bone marrow or stem cell transplants are most commonly used in blood cancers, in which the bone marrow…
New genetic discovery could change how Friedreich’s ataxia is diagnosed
A University of Oklahoma researcher is the first to discover that the sequence of the genetic defect in…
Harvard in court over Trump’s cuts in research funding
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University appeared in federal court Monday in a pivotal case in its battle with…
Northwestern lab finds harmless virus in Parkinson’s patients
A Northwestern Medicine research lab has found a usually harmless virus in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. The…
OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire.
Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210…
The importance of funding and investment to strengthen data science in Africa
Data science (DS) plays a transformative role in advancing scientific discovery and informing policy by enabling the systematic…