Health
Why lost hearing does not come back: two proteins, a membrane, and a cell that never regrows
Presented at the Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco: a death signal in the membrane may explain why noise, genetics and some…
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Health
“Ferritin face” has millions of views, and doctors say you cannot read iron levels off a photograph
The trend is wrong about the method and right that iron deficiency is under-diagnosed. Separating those two is the whole job, because…
Health
3D bioprinting explained: the ink is living cells, and the printer builds tissue a layer at a time
Skin, bone, cartilage and beating heart tissue have all been printed. The nearer-term value is not transplants but tissue models that let…
Health
A medical treatment for swollen limbs has become a TikTok routine for a “snatched waist”. Doctors explain what it actually does
Manual lymphatic drainage is a real treatment for lymphoedema, usually after cancer or lymph node surgery. A researcher warns…
Technology
A mother typed her daughter’s symptoms into ChatGPT. The diagnosis it pointed to affects six people in the UK
Lily is 19 months old and has Multisystemic Smooth Muscle Dysfunction Syndrome, known in only about 70 people worldwide. Her family says AI…
Health
The Dutch word for labia translates as "shame lips". A dictionary has just added an alternative
Dikke van Dale will add a neutral word for the labia beside the traditional one. Campaigners say a word that carries shame ends up on…