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The flimsy promises of brain wearables

The flimsy promises of brain wearables

Anna Wexler of the Perelman School of Medicine said the FDA is ill prepared to reign in the companies producing wearable brain devices, which record brain activity or stimulate the brain with electric currents in spite of little oversight.

With a second patient free from HIV, what’s next?
stem cell pipette

With a second patient free from HIV, what’s next?

Scientists have succeeded in sending an HIV patient into long-term remission, only the second time such a feat has been documented. Pablo Tebas and Bridgette Brawner discuss what this means for HIV research and for people living with the virus.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The art of talking about science
Child in a gray shirt sitting waiting to get a shot by gloved hands.

The art of talking about science

Paul Offit of Penn Medicine and CHOP offers five tips for better communicating tough scientific topics to the public—and standing up for science in the process.

Michele W. Berger

He promised to restore damaged hearts. Harvard says his lab fabricated research

He promised to restore damaged hearts. Harvard says his lab fabricated research

PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno offered comment on now debunked claims that heart cells could be regrown and replaced, contrary to an accepted belief in cardiology. Moreno said, explaining the fraud’s persistence in spite of contested evidence, that “people can see what they want to see.”