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AI and machine learning could halve preventable errors in medicine

Researcher Suchi Saria works to bridge the gap between AI solutions and implementation in healthcare

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Yes, you can put a price on nature. Doing so could stop environmental destruction

Gretchen C. Daily won the "Nobel Prize for the Environment" for her work on natural capital

Microglia may be the missing clue to solve the opioid epidemic

These tiny cells have the machinery to sense opioids, and targeting them may relieve opioid addiction

Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brain

Hours spent catching 'em all primes the brain to recognize familiar, pixelated Pikachus

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How your immune system can give you narcolepsy

New research could lead to easier diagnoses of this rare sleep disorder

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The next therapeutic frontier may be in your gut

Scientists are trying to harness the microbiome for healing

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Billionaires are rushing into biotech. Inequality is following them into science

'Free-market philanthropy' raises yet more questions about the future of American public research