Scientists find no benefit to time-restricted eating
A rigorous one-year study in which people followed a low-calorie diet between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. or consumed the same number...
Does moderate drinking protect your heart? Genetic study offers a new answer
By studying the relationship between gene variants and alcohol consumption, scientists found no real cardiac benefit to drinking, even modestly.
Americans just shrug at flu: Does that signal future attitudes about COVID?
Americans "just don't care" about flu, with many not getting shots even as it kills tens of thousands every year. Will this also become how...
Their DNA hides a warning, but they don’t want to know what it says
What should happen when researchers, while sequencing a participant’s DNA as part of a large study, discover gene variants that increase the risk for conditions...
A cure for Type 1 diabetes? For one man, it seems to have worked
A new treatment for Type 1 diabetes using stem cells that produce insulin has surprised experts and given them hope for the 1.5 million Americans...
Pioneering gene therapy freed her of sickle cell. Is a cure at hand?
Experimental gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease are extraordinarily promising and costly. Will the Biden administration commit to spending that could speed clinical trial...
What we think we know about metabolism may be wrong
People gain on average more than a 1 1/2 pounds each year during adulthood, but the conventional wisdom of a slowing metabolism has been thrown...