Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Tapeworms and drug delivery

    Scientists are learning from tapeworms how to develop more effective medicines.

    By Emily Sohn
  2. Health & Medicine

    A framework for growing bone

    A promising new material could help encourage damaged or broken bones to grow back.

    By Emily Sohn
  3. Health & Medicine

    Remembering Facts and Feelings

    An inner-brain region called the hippocampus may be the root of memory of both experiences and fact.

    By Emily Sohn
  4. Health & Medicine

    Sea Kids See Clearly Underwater

    Sea-gypsy children spend so much time swimming that their eyes have adapted to improve vision underwater.

    By Emily Sohn
  5. Health & Medicine

    Gut germs to the rescue

    Many of the bacteria that live in our intestines may help keep us healthy.

    By Emily Sohn