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After 24 Years, Joe Cohen’s Malaria Vaccine Will Probably Be World’s First

Joe Cohen didn’t know much about malaria when he agreed to head the vaccine research program at a company that [...]

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If MacGyver Was A Biologist – Epetri Dish Monitors Cell Growth In Realtime (video)

A camera-attached laboratory microscope: $2,500. An imaging chip, a smartphone, and some Lego blocks: $400. Scientists at Caltech, out to [...]

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Welcome to Rite Aid, The Virtual Doctors Will See You Now

You got your shopping list: coffee, toothpaste, Tums, and…a doctor’s consultation about your lower back pain? Rite Aid is now [...]

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Revolutionary New Brain Chip Allows Monkeys To Grasp AND Feel Objects Using Their Thoughts

Scientists have created a brain implant that not only allows monkeys to control a computer with their thoughts, it also [...]

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Brain And Coronary Stents: Expensive, Popular, Cutting-Edge – And They Don’t Even Work

Brain stents are the latest in treatments for victims of stroke. Cutting edge medicine, they’ve steadily increased in popularity in [...]

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Sperm Donor Has Fathered 150 Children

Imagine finding out you had a half-sister. You might want to contact her, find out where she lives, what she [...]

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Another Study Shows A Glass of Wine A Day Keeps The Doc Away

A new study finds that middle-aged women who regularly drink moderate amounts of alcohol are healthier when they’re older, compared [...]

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US Child Mortality Rates Rank 41st in the World

I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s getting better all the time. At least most can sing that tune [...]

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Report: Baby’s Sex Can Be Determined With Mother’s Blood At Seven Weeks

Want to find out if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl but aren’t sure about [...]

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Now Robots Drink Wine Too – Scientists Create ‘Robot Sommelier’

Robots get to have all the fun. In this case what I’m calling a robot is the electronic tongue created [...]

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Miracle Powder Regrows Fingers, Now Thigh Muscle for Marine

It was only a year ago that ACell’s “miracle powder” was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the [...]

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New European Study Not Worth Its Salt

This past week the media has been in a frenzy about a new study that supposedly shows that a high [...]

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Art Follows Function–One Company’s Vision To Break The Mold Of Prosthetics

Bespoke provides amputees an aesthetic alternative to titanium rods and plastic-looking, off-colored shells that typically adorn their legs. Rather than [...]

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Microscopic Drug-Delivering Robot Operates In Eye

Robots have been trying to invade our bodies for years. Now they’ve found a way to get in our eyes [...]

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Patients Control Computer Using Only Their Minds (video)

A temporary surgical implant enabled patients to “talk” to a computer. Just by thinking the words aloud in their head [...]

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Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance Causes WHO to Declare: “The World is on the Brink…”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The widespread misuse of antibiotics is rapidly rendering them powerless against infection. Common infections that [...]

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Japanese Researchers Successfully Grow Sperm in Lab – Eventual Cure for Infertility?

In an amazing technical feat researchers in Japan have accomplished something that has stymied the field for the past half [...]

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Cutting Edge Gene Therapy Successfully Treats Parkinson’s Symptoms

Imagine that for years you’ve lived with a body that is in constant, uncontrollable, motion: your hands tremble, your head [...]

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New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Thanks to a German research institute, in the very near future, we may not even see the cameras looking back [...]

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UK Stem Cell Company Cures Race Horse Tendons, Humans Next

In a very unusual breakthrough, a stem cell treatment for racehorses is ready to be tried… on you. British scientists [...]

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Ambulance 2.0: Lifebot Technology Creates “Super Ambulances”

Ambulances will soon be getting some major technological upgrades effectively turning them into “super ambulances.” These technologically enhanced ambulances will [...]

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Another Dog Sniffs Cancer – So Why Aren’t Dogs In The Clinic?

Maybe you’ve heard that line about dogs being able to tell whether or not someone has cancer just by smelling [...]

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Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Cells (video)

It’s faster, more powerful, and user-friendly. No, I’m not talking about the latest generation tablet, I’m talking about the latest [...]

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The Pills Have Eyes: Microchipped Medicine Is Coming

Open wide! Earlier this month, Swiss pharma giant Novartis announced it will be seeking regulatory approval of “smart pills” embedded [...]

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Biological Microchip Mimics a Real Lung – It Even Breathes!

Who says biology, engineering, and medicine are different fields? Researchers led by Dr. Donald Ingber at Harvard’s Wyss Institute reported [...]

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