News Feature in 2019

From online journal clubs to ‘tweetorials’ to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine.

From investigating the diversity of the vaginal microbiome to developing neuroprosthetics with sensory feedback for leg amputees, the work of the authors featured in our pages is fascinating. We asked them about their hopes for the future of medical research.

Medical schools and graduate research programs embrace artificial intelligence.

To celebrate the end of our 25th anniversary year, we asked thought leaders and experts in the field to answer one question: What will shape the next 25 years of medical research?

One year after the world learned of He Jiankui’s editing of twins, gaps in rules remain.

Everything from bacon consumption to kidney function can skew cannabidiol dosing.

Parsing the DNA of individual cells gives a higher-resolution view of health and disease.

Designing oncology drugs to hit more than one biochemical target could lead to more effective drugs, but it’s a battle getting there.

The global rise of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ is changing the landscape of disease transmission.

Climate change makes the challenge of certain tropical ailments even tougher.

Researchers studying insect-borne disease hope to bring down the exorbitant cost of mosquitoes.

Companies are marrying gene editing with stem cell therapies in new clinical trials.

Radical changes are afoot in medical schools.

Cancer registries that track tumors as they spread could reveal how these growths metastasize

Careful sorting of probiotics may finally pave the way for an FDA approval.

Machine learning makes new sense of psychiatric symptoms

Exploring the evolution, from analysis and endpoints to registration and regulations

Genetics and electronic health records come together to identify heritable traits