‘Partial reprogramming’, which winds back a cell’s biological clock, could enter clinical trials later this year. Plus, a single DNA tweak can make female mice grow testes and why obesity drugs are ...

Expressions of feminism are beautifully varied in literature. Women have often fought for their socio-political equality –for themselves or for other women. To some degree, all literature written from ...

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies A child of 14 is forced to walk on to a ...

Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...

Way back in 1933, Dr. Paul Lueg made a discovery that would someday change the audio industry forever: by playing the opposite frequency of a sound wave, he could effectively cancel it out as if it ...

Cellular senescence is a response to a wide variety of stressors, including DNA damage, oncogene activation and physiologic aging, and pathologically accelerated senescence contributes to human ...

If there is one term that Caroline Polachek cannot stand, it’s “female artists”. Whether referring to painting or pop, she explains, “gender is not a genre. Kate Bush, Björk and Fiona Apple were ...

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...

Even as detecting cancer early remains key, a Gurugram-based startup PredOmix has developed a novel blood test that can detect about 32 cancers in both men and women, with 98 per cent accuracy. The ...