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Need to check your blood sugar? Just scan your contact lens.

Smart contact lenses could soon be monitoring health problems, not just correcting eyesight

Biochemistry

Saliva is just what we needed to create a new malaria vaccine

Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

Humanity's viral stowaway is now a defense against our greatest diseases

Josh Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Here's how to avoid outliving your own bones

Emily Atkinson, Indiana University School of Medicine

Scientists are recruiting live bacteria to fight deadly infections

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

New HIV drugs show a disease under control – for those who can afford them

Danny Jomaa, University of Ottawa

We're beginning to understand why spinal cord tissue is so hard to heal

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

Chewing gum could detect disease in saliva and deliver results via taste

Kevin Pels, The Scripps Research Institute

Can the right microbes really solve all your health problems?

Namrata Iyer, Brown University

This 3D-printed ovary could help the women left out of modern fertility technology

We're a long way from a human version, but the initial results are promising

Endocrinology

University of Michigan

We're beginning to understand the 'tumor microenvironment' that makes cancer so resilient

Danny Jomaa, University of Ottawa

3D-printed organs could help us heal faster and live longer

Kate Krueger, New Harvest

Diabetes is a much stranger disease than I realized

Dan Samorodnitsky

Advances in gene therapy could help cure a cruel childhood illness

Yewande Pearse, LA Biomed

How turmeric became a naturopathic cure-all without the evidence to back it up

Ana Gorelova, University of Pittsburgh

Your body's cells adapt to stress to avoid making mistakes

Irene Park, University of Michigan

How do researchers study a deadly bacterium? They give mice our immune system

Kelly Hallstrom, Biomedical Sciences

In science, failure can be a blessing. Just look at Viagra

Ana Gorelova, University of Pittsburgh

How fatal snail venom can be reimagined as a lifesaving diabetes treatment

This unique, weaponized form of insulin could produce a new class of fast-acting drugs for managing diabetes.

Biology

University of Utah

Can scientists learn from the stock market to eradicate HIV?

Kasra Zarei, University of Iowa

How stressed-out fish are teaching us about human heart disease

Kelsey Lucas, Harvard University

A scientist explains why you should approach exciting microbiome news with caution

Ilana Arbisser, Stanford University

A researcher explains why cancer isn't mainly caused by bad luck

Michael Badgley, Columbia University

Meet the woman who changed how we treat cancer

We still don't really know how Zika gets into the brain

Michael F. Wells, Harvard University

Neurons die with grace