New research sponsored at Children’s Hospital Boston will use gene therapy to fix the malfunctioning DNA of children with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), popularly...
Will HIV eventually go the way of smallpox and polio? Earlier this month, scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced their discovery of three...
Think the global human population is growing too quickly? Then work to decrease infant mortality among the world's poor. That's the message that world-class...
Unlike most robot invaders, Neato's XV-11 didn't leave my house a flaming wreck. That's probably because it's a vacuum. The latest technology in robotic...
In the upcoming movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a criminal with the technology to project himself into the dreams of others. The circumstances of...
Modern robots don't make the best conversationalists. That's something that New York Times reporter Amy Harmon found out the hard way. She recently published...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully grown new livers on the remains of old ones. Using a series of detergents, scientists were able...
In the midst of the data and gadget revolutions, a new, crossbreed movement is emerging: around-the-clock health information tracking devices.
With healthcare growing more and...
For years, scientists have struggled to understand why the immune systems of multiple sclerosis patients attack their own bodies. With such a debilitating...
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Telerobots are here.Anybots wants to put you inside a robot. The Silicon Valley startup recently announced that their telepresence bot, the QB, will...
Who says biology, engineering, and medicine are different fields? Researchers led by Dr. Donald Ingber at Harvard’s Wyss Institute reported in Science that...
Researchers in the UK and Sweden may have solved the mystery as to why a revolutionary treatment for Parkinson's Disease had such disastrous side-effects....
An 'artificial pancreas' developed with funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) could allow diabetics to control their blood sugar automatically. Consisting of...
Ever wondered if the Matrix could really exist? If Nadav Harel's latest documentary is any indication, he's been asking himself the same question. Titled...
Researchers in Massachusetts have discovered a host of genetic variations that may be responsible for living past 100. Thomas Perls, director of the New...
The claims surrounding stem cell treatments are starting to get downright ridiculous. Case in point: so called stem cell technologies used in beauty products...
