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Cortexyme is betting that an infectious agent causes Alzheimer’s, and that targeting that pathogen can stop and even reverse the disease.

STAT takes a closer look at the most closely followed biotech companies, rounding up answers to some of our earlier questions and posing some new ones.

In an essay by @WesElyMD, here's Matt Fitzgerald describing his life with long Covid: "It's terrifying. I mean, I've had to dig real deep. How much longer will I feel like this? I'm scared."

With Thanksgiving only days away, we asked infectious disease experts whether they are starting to lower their guard against Covid. Some of them are, a little.

The effort is one more sign of the desperation in major metropolitan areas to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2.

The encouraging data offer hope that genome editing might one day offer a safe, durable cure for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.

If the iconoclasts are right, putting coronavirus patients on ventilators could be of little benefit to many and even harmful to some.

The promise of health AI comes with the humility that those who develop health algorithms have learned: algorithms are only as good as the data that go into them and the humans who interpret the…

«During my career, I have spent time on each side. Now, as the CEO of a company on the border, I’ve developed a deeper understanding of the differences that create barriers to mutual innovation. For health AI to achieve its potential, health care and tech companies must keep the big picture top of mind: health care is about saving lives.»

In an ‘historic’ first, scientists freeze, thaw, and transplant rat organs — bringing transplant medicine one step closer to sci-fi dreams of stopping biological time.

Maithra Raghu, a research scientist at Google Brain, is betting that neural networks can become a powerful tool in medicine.

The way we are dealing with mental health problems at the moment is very clearly not working.

Technology can improve how to care for people with mental illness; it just can't replace actual care. And when it comes to care, you get what you pay for.

Researchers believe that neurology will soon be comfortable incorporating brain stimulation into routine care, just as cardiology has accepted electrical devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators…

In a secret experiment, researchers replaced the dysfunctional brain cells of a Parkinson’s patient with the progeny of an extraordinary type of stem cell.

This is "biology's century," @matthewherper writes. But we’re approaching a moment when changes in what we understand are every bit as terrifying as exhilarating.

Where things stand now with the pandemic, and who is being hurt the most, as the country prepares to enter its third Covid autumn.

The FDA authorized new Covid booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer that more closely match the strains of the coronavirus that are currently circulating in the U.S.

More than two years after SARS-CoV-2 appeared, there are still many mysteries about the virus and the pandemic it caused. STAT examined six key mysteries that scientists are beginning to unravel.

Renaming monkeypox — the virus and the disease — is proving more challenging than some expected.

Here are some of the things we have learned about Covid-19, and some of the pressing questions that we still need answered.