Category: 4. Health

Inner Cosmos is a startup reinventing care for depressed patients unresponsive to conventional pharmaceutical therapies. Since the FDA granted the company a device exemption to initiate a feasibility study in 2022, they have fitted three patients with their Digital Pill device. This makes the company an early first mover in psychiatric brain-computer interfaces and ushers in a new era for the BCI field.

Writing new brain chemistry at the push of a button is not a new idea. Deep brain…

Few substances have woven themselves so seamlessly into the fabric of daily life as caffeine. Found in coffee, tea, chocolate and countless performance-enhancing supplements, this naturally occurring stimulant has long been prized for its ability to increase alertness and combat fatigue. Yet beneath its ubiquitous presence lies a complex…

Wounded skin cells scream with slow-motion electric pulses.

Such electric spikes are a surprise because only nerve cells were thought to communicate this way. These signals move at a snail’s pace compared to nerve impulses and can be detected at least 500 micrometers away — about the distance of 40 cells — researchers report in the March 25 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The pulsing electrical waves may help injured cells’ neighbors prepare to heal…

As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, concerns about what would happen to the personal information contained in its massive genetic and health information database were swift and widespread. A few days after, a U.S. judge ruled that the company could sell its consumer data as part of the bankruptcy.

The attorneys general of several states warned their citizens to delete their genetic data. California urged its citizens to request that…