How long can people live? This is not just a foundational question in science. The answer has important public policy implications and is of interest to us all. Recent scientific evidence has revealed...

Menopause is associated with the cessation of the female reproductive span. While this is true, it has far more consequences for the female body. The hormonal changes accompanying menopause are associ...

Cyclarity Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based at the Buck Institute in California, has launched its first human clinical trial. Its primary candidate cyclodextrin drug, UDP-003, […]

In JCI Insight, researchers have explored the possibility of using gene therapy to restore a crucial protein and repair hearing loss. Hearing and its failure In […]

A new advisory by the US Surgeon General highlights a topic that – as the document itself notes – has been flying mostly under the public’s radar: the relationship between alcohol consumption and canc...