Far Out! Worms May Dose Mice With Cannabinoids to Kill the Pain
The next time you’ve got something to complain about, consider the plight of the intestinal worm. It not only has to figure out how to eat and breed in the confines of another creature, it has to prevent that creature’s body from dissolving the parasite into a mist of cells. That means dodging the immune…
To an AI, Every Eye Tells a Story
WIRED ICON Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google NOMINATES R. Kim, Chief medical officer of Aravind Eye Hospital Ten cents won’t get you much in the American health care system—maybe a Band-Aid, if your HMO is feeling generous—but in parts of India, where nearly a quarter of the world’s blind population lives, it will cover the…