Lucas Franki is an associate editor for MDedge News, and has been with the company since 2014. He has a BA in English from Penn State University and is an Eagle Scout.
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Raise a glass to speed up the brain’s aging process
Plus: CVS goes meta, Usain Bolt goes fast, and oocyte aging goes backward.
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Tastier chocolate may be healthier chocolate
Plus: A villain in milk, low-tech radiation detection, and in-head localization.
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Your heart doesn’t like peas any more than you do
Plus: Digging up an ear-surgery patient and tuning in to musical dislike.
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Tiny hitchhikers like to ride in the trunk
Flushing fireworks, MRI metamaterials, and the architecture of intelligence.
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If you’ve got 3 seconds, then you’ve got time to work out
Plus: Golf’s newest birdie, an online community that tingles, and procrastinating brains.
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If you give a mouse a genetically engineered bitcoin wallet
Plus: Monkeys that don’t drink, water that’s unsafe to drink, and mud that’s unsafe to eat or drink.
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We’re dying to tell you about fatigability
Plus: An unethical medical NFT, a boy’s robot avatar, and the plane truth about COVID.
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Make America beautiful: Support mask mandates
Plus astro-anemia, ICU eyes, and dying around the world.
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Urine for a new vaccine alternative
Plus: An alternative to the vaccine, laundry is in the air, and the emergency department’s favorite patients.
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Who needs self-driving cars when we’ve got goldfish?
Plus dueling idioms, COVID-19–fighting pachyderms, and Zoom self-consciousness.
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Even COVID-19 can’t stop a true optimist
Plus: Cheese and sleep may not mix, but golf and Parkinson’s do.
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A very strange place to find a tooth
Plus: TikTok lettuce, Viagra for the brain, and a COVID robot.
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Misinterpretation is a science, not an art
Plus, singing various organs out, and COVID-19 dominates the word of the year.
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The neurological super powers of grandma are real
Plus, COVID hits the woods and finger snapping spoils a movie.
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Step right up, folks, for a public dissection
Plus, go ahead, have that soda before math.