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March 4, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmPioneering gene therapy may treat a deadly seizure disorderNew gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet…

An in utero treatment using placenta-derived stem cells could treat infants with a neural-tube condition called spina bifida. Credit: Simon Fraser/Science Photo LibraryStem cells applied to…

A phase II clinical trial has found dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the psychoactive components traditionally used in the Amazonian psychedelic ritual ayahuasca, might be a promising…

I was half-watching the latest series of the Netflix romcom Nobody Wants This when suddenly things got interesting. Spoiler alert: it had just been revealed that…

On a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23, sits on her bed clutching her phone, her mind racing and chest tightening. On her…

A former head of the British military is calling for the government to ease restrictions on the party drug MDMA so that it can be tested…

When Jake, a businessman in his 50s, first arrives at my therapy practice, it’s obvious that he has some misgivings. Jake’s marriage to Louise is in trouble,…

Credit: querbeet/iStock via GettyWhat is a chatbot’s earliest memory? Or biggest fear? Researchers who put major artificial-intelligence models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting answers…

It is early December, and I am sitting in a psychoanalyst’s office in central London, about to do 60 minutes of pre-Christmas family therapy. Outside, the Christmas…

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