Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Modeling the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) is limited by the lack of robust protocols to generate induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)–derived brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs). Current ...

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...

Neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by their insidious onset and progressive neuronal degeneration, present significant challenges in the fields of neuroscience and medicine. We elucidate the ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

A recent review published in the journal Current Clinical Microbiology Reports discussed how modern lifestyle factors affect the microbiome. Changes in the metabolomic output and composition of the ...