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Genetic variations, it turns out, explain why everyone experiences pain differently. Now medicine can push toward personalized relief.
Kuru, scrapie, a fatal form of insomnia—all caused by renegade proteins. Cure one and other, more familiar diseases may follow.
Brain surgery unexpectedly impaired a writer/illustrator’s abilities to speak, read and write, leaving her to wonder if she would ever get her old self back.
Promising yet far from proven, this approach to treating post-traumatic stress neutralizes a memory just before it comes back to haunt you.
Often, biology knows best, which is why these medical innovations borrow liberally from natural properties and processes.
Someday, we might all be taking it—even if we don’t really need it.
After the panic, the author of our article on avian flu discusses developments in the story.
Addiction significantly alters the brain, drawing drug users into its irresistible chemistry. Treatment, then, can’t block the high.
Scientists are untangling puberty’s central mystery: What combination of genes and environmental cues flip the switch?
An excerpt from Allegra Goodman’s novel Intuition.
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