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A team at Aarhus University injected light-sensitive nanoparticles into the eyes of blind mice and recorded light responses in the animals' visual cortex, in a paper published Sept. 22 in Nature…
Amgen said on Sept. 22, 2026, that a Phase 3 trial of its experimental drug dazodalibep met its main goal in adults with Sjögren's disease, and did not say by how much. Sjögren's disease is an…
Researchers at the University of Santiago de Compostela have pooled seven earlier meta-analyses covering more than 3 million participants, and report that the small association between acetaminophen…
The Food and Drug Administration approved imlunestrant in combination with abemaciclib on Sept. 18, 2026, for adults with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumors carry a mutation in the…
An experimental therapy switched the hepatitis B virus off inside the liver cells of mice, and three monthly doses left up to 90% of treated animals with no detectable virus six months later. The…
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a battery that powered two swallowable medical capsules inside living pigs and then dissolved in the animals' digestive tracts. Pills…
Beacon Therapeutics said on Sept. 21 that its experimental gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease with no approved treatment, met the main goal of a controlled trial…
Daily vitamin C did not slow the growth of abnormal blood cell clones in people with precancerous blood conditions or early-stage blood cancers, the EVITA trial reported in the journal Cancer. Its…
The airways clean themselves. A thin film of mucus catches the dust, smoke and bacteria that arrive with every breath, and millions of microscopic hairs, called cilia, beat in unison to sweep that…
Bernard Muller studies what happens to a voice when the nervous system behind it fails. He also lives it: ALS has taken his own speech, and he works through an eye-gaze interface, as the paper…
Doctors Without Borders and its research center, Epicentre, launched a study in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sept. 19 that will offer frontline health workers a vaccine licensed against a…
The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Neptune Medical's Triton 1, a robotic system for flexible endoscopy, for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures throughout the colon. The Burlingame,…
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