Industry Dynamics

Warning to adults: Children notice everything

Jeff Grabmeier | August 5th 2019. Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to but children dont ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests. Researchers surprised adults and 4- and 5-year-old children pa...

Scientists Develop a Blood Test That Predicts Risk of Death

By Roni Dengler | August 20, 2019 (Credit: Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock) If youve ever wondered how likely you are to die in the next five to 10 years, scientists may now have an answer for you. Researchers identified 14 molecules in blood that are associated with dying from any cause. They say a score based on the mol...

This Tiny Robot Snake is Made to Slither Through Your Brain

By Jennifer Walter | August 28, 2019 5:15 pm The robot snake in a model of human veins. (Credit: Kim et al., Sci. Robot. 4, eaax7329 (2019)) You probably didnt picture the robots of the future to be slimy, magnetized snakes. But a hyper-flexible robot modeled after the legless reptiles and designed by researchers at MI...

First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed

Alison Abbott | September 05, 2019 In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the bodys epigenetic clock, which tracks a persons biological age. A persons biological age, measured by the epigenetic clock, can lag behind or exceed their chronological age Credit: Patrick McDermott/Getty A small clinical study in Califo...

New evidence shows why the HPV vaccine is as important for boys as girls

Matthew Herper | September 11, 2019 The FDA first approved the HPV vaccine, Mercks Gardasil, in 2006. CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP Earlier this year, the biotech community mourned the loss of Michael Becker , a former pharmaceutical industry executive who turned his cancer into a teaching moment. In 2018, we watched on his ...