A California Start-Up Wants to Cure Alzheimer’s With Youthful Blood
Alkahest is performing patient trials to see if injecting plasma into Alzheimer's patients can mitigate the effects of the disease.
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A ‘Pacific Standard’ Guide to Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions
Find your purpose, forgive yourself for slip-ups, and have someone gently prod you.
How Childhood Trauma Adversely Affects Decision-Making
New research shows that those who suffered significant trauma at a young age are unable to correctly consider risk as adults.
How a ‘Big Bang’ Theory Could Change Cancer Treatment
Current treatments involve targeting and killing specific cancer cells, but new research points to the efficacy of an ecological approach to curing the disease.
Is It Time to Rethink Aging?
Medicine, history, and rare age disorders are reshaping the way researchers view the process of aging, and it may extend lives for decades.
Modern Scientists Are Wrong Far More Than You Think
Statisticians have shown that many scientific findings are wrong, and without an increase in statistical know-how for scientists it'll continue happening.
A Short Sequence of Fish DNA Could Change Our Understanding of Virus Reproduction
Researchers in Tokyo discovered a strain of herpes contained in a "jumping gene" found in fish and humans—the implications are still unknown.
Bright Lights, Dead Birds
A new study investigates the effects that well-lit structures have on migratory birds.
Protecting Adolescent Drug Users From Long-Term Damage
Using drugs at a young age can permanently modify your brain chemistry, but researchers are working to change that.
How Do Our Bodies Respond to Pollution?
Fish can change their DNA in response to contamination, but it's still unclear how our bodies cope with the issue.