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How the FDA Approves AI Medical Devices Technology

How the FDA Approves AI Medical Devices

The FDA has authorized over 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices, from radiology scanners to smartwatch heart monitors. Here is how the approval process w...

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How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain Science

How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain

Up to 70% of people with autism also have ADHD. New brain-imaging and genetic research reveals why these two conditions so often travel together—and w...

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How Clinical Trials Work—From Lab to Pharmacy Health

How Clinical Trials Work—From Lab to Pharmacy

Clinical trials are the rigorous, multi-phase process every new drug must survive before reaching patients. Here is how the system works, why it takes...

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How Codon Bias Works—DNA's Hidden Second Code Science

How Codon Bias Works—DNA's Hidden Second Code

The genetic code has 64 codons but only 20 amino acids, and scientists long assumed the 'extra' codons were interchangeable. New research reveals cell...

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How Scientists Map the Brain's Wiring Science

How Scientists Map the Brain's Wiring

Connectomics is the science of mapping every neural connection in a brain. From the 302-neuron worm mapped in the 1980s to the fruit fly's 130,000 neu...

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How the Brain's Glymphatic System Cleans Itself Science

How the Brain's Glymphatic System Cleans Itself

The glymphatic system is a recently discovered waste-clearance network that flushes toxic proteins from the brain during sleep, with major implication...

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How De Novo Protein Design Works—and Why It Matters Science

How De Novo Protein Design Works—and Why It Matters

Scientists can now design entirely new proteins from scratch using AI tools like RFdiffusion, opening doors to custom medicines, enzymes, and material...

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What Are Quasicrystals and Why They Broke Science Science

What Are Quasicrystals and Why They Broke Science

Quasicrystals are materials with atoms arranged in ordered but never-repeating patterns, defying the rules of classical crystallography. From a ridicu...

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How Lab-Grown Organs Work—and Why Medicine Needs Them Science

How Lab-Grown Organs Work—and Why Medicine Needs Them

Tissue engineering combines scaffolds, living cells, and bioprinting to build replacement organs in the lab, offering hope for the more than 100,000 p...

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How Male Birth Control Works—and Why It Took So Long Science

How Male Birth Control Works—and Why It Took So Long

After decades of false starts, male contraceptives are finally reaching clinical trials. Here's how the leading candidates work, the biological hurdle...

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How Liquid Biopsy Works—and Why It Could Change Cancer Detection Science

How Liquid Biopsy Works—and Why It Could Change Cancer Detection

Liquid biopsy analyzes fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to screen for dozens of cancers from a...

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How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works Science

How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works

Scientists have mapped a dedicated brain circuit that drives chronic pain separately from acute pain, opening the door to targeted treatments that cou...

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