Shutterstock Smoking kills. No other habit has been so strongly tied to death. In addition to inhaling burned tobacco and tar, smokers breathe in toxic metals...
A liquid dose of methadone at a clinic. AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles To treat addiction to opioid painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin, scientists say we should...
23andMe Co-Founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Anne Wojcicki, the CEO and founder of Silicon Valley’s most popular genetics testing startup, 23andMe,...
Robert Galbraith/flickr Starting as early as January 2017, the staff of a secretive Facebook initiative called Building 8 have been working to make the world’s first...
Shutterstock It’s not every day that a team of top-notch scientists calls for an illegal psychedelic drug to be made available as medicine. But earlier this...
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A symptom-checking tool called Ada Health is launching a new partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. On Wednesday, the startup will...
Flickr/Jane Rahman Several companies make DNA tests that claim to tell you how well you’ll respond to certain antidepressants based on your genetic profile. Two personalized...
Shutterstock A new biotech startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised $25 million to study the effects of psychedelics like psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic...
Shutterstock In a surprise visit, representatives from the Food and Drug Administration showed up to the headquarters of Silicon Valley e-cig startup Juul and seized “thousands...
Ecovative Ecovative, a startup that made a name for itself with its sustainable packing and building materials made from mushrooms, is planning a pivot into lab-grown...
