Science & Innovation

A world-first burn treatment helped an 18-year-old student heal severe facial burns without skin grafts, offering hope for future patients.

The FDA expanded access to gene therapy for sickle cell disease, allowing children as young as 2 to receive the breakthrough treatment.

A 6-year-old girl with a rare inherited blindness regained vision through gene therapy, helping her see in low light again.

No woman aged 20-24 died of cervical cancer in England from 2020-2024, a Lancet study found, crediting the HPV vaccine for some 200 lives saved

Three teens won the Global Earth Prize for Plas-Stick, a tamarind powder that clumps microplastics in water so they can be lifted out with a magnet.

A cancer-killing virus injected into pancreatic tumors stopped them growing in three patients, with one stable a year on, offering a breakthrough against the deadly disease.

A Mayo Clinic AI model found hidden signs of pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans years before diagnosis, offering hope for earlier detection.

Fifth graders at Global Idea School used AI to build a working Braille 3D Generator that surprised teacher and Microsoft AI director Juan Lavista Ferres.

A new AI tool called PhenMap can predict which bowel cancer patients won't benefit from an NHS drug, potentially sparing thousands from harsh side effects.

A husband-and-wife team whose love story began in a Harvard anatomy lab have won one of science's biggest awards for creating the first approved...