Cutting-Edge Medicine

This one-of-a-kind pill morphs into a balloon that, once filled inside a patient’s stomach, reduces appetite — and, in turn, weight.

Psychedelic drugs could help treat depression, according to a new generation of researchers leading a revolution in mental health care.

In the near future, genetic testing could be as simple as a pregnancy test — and babies could have their genome sequenced fresh from the womb.

Optogenetics is solving neuroscience’s oldest mystery and illuminating a path to the regeneration of nerve tissue.