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Smart Carpet Detects Your Gait, Knows if You’ve Fallen
In World First, Scientists Surgically Implant a Working Bionic Eye In a Blind Patient
South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets
A Mechanical Scale Capable of Weighing a Single Molecule
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Biocompatible Transistors Wired Into Living Human Tissue
Scientists Turn Adult White Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
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Autotransfusion Device Collects Stray Blood During Surgery and Pumps it Back Into the Patient
Rape Results In More Pregnancies Than Consensual Sex, Not Fewer
Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel Backs New Venture Aimed at Producing 3-D Printed Meat
Diagnostic Eyedrops Could Make Patients’ Eyes Light Up With Signs of Neurological Disease
Mutant Butterflies are Turning Up in Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Zone
Spotting Cancer Cells in Blood With a 27-Picosecond Camera
The Test Olympians Use to Improve Their Performance–On the Inside
May 1941: Eat Ice Cream Before Exercising or Replace it With Shopping
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Video: A Japanese Company Will Scan and Print You a Statue of Your Gestating Fetus
How NFC Radios Will Help the Visually Impaired to See
How The Largest Health Surveillance System Ever Created Is Preventing An Olympic-Size Pandemic
Epidemiological Algorithm Scans Your Tweets, Can Predict You’ll Get The Flu Next Week
With A Chemical Injection, Blind Mice Can See
A Sliver of Human Brain in a Chip, and Other Organ Simulators
Scientists Read Monkeys’ Minds, See What They’re Planning to Do Before They Do it
Video: Jellyfish Made From Silicone and Rat’s Heart Cells Swims and Beats Like a Heart
Researchers Build First Complete Computer Model of an Entire Organism
Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Could Cause Ultraviolet Damage to Skin
The Adidas miCoach Will Track Real-Time Data From Every Single MLS Player
A New Blood Test Could Spot Concussions Within Hours
IBM Supercomputer Simulates Common Cold Virus
Screen Yourself for Skin Cancer at Home With Your Phone’s Camera
FDA Approves First HIV-Prevention Drug
Bio-Retina Implant Could Give Laser-Powered Sight to the Blind
A New Look at the Living Habits of Bacteria Could Help Beat Antibiotic Resistance
In Simulation, Moon Dust Found to Be Toxic to Humans
Chemistry Finally Delivers Long-Promised Self-Cleaning Lawn Furniture
Japanese Anesthesiologist Completely Faked 172 Papers
A Topically Applied Skin Lotion That Modifies Your Genes
With New Nicotine Vaccine, Cigarettes Give You No Pleasure
The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component
Injecting Oxygen Directly into the Bloodstream Could Save Suffocating Patients
Male Contraceptive Gel Could Be Applied Directly to the Skin
Ultrasound in a Pill Could Replace Daily Injections
How to Give Ferrets A Highly Contagious, Sneeze-Transmissible Version of the Bird Flu
Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs
The Best Medical Images of 2012
Researchers Grow Functioning Human Liver Tissue from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Study of Angry Mice Could Find Drugs to Prevent Pathological Rage
New Prenatal Blood Tests Can Identify Paternity of an Eight-Week Fetus
This Is What Your Brain Looks Like When You Lose Your Self-Control
Oxygen-Monitoring Glasses Could Let You Read People’s Moods Right Through Their Skin
Video: Lab-on-a-Chip Sorts Particles in Blood Using Pinball-Machine-Like Ramps
FYI: Can Drinking Moonshine Really Make Me Go Blind?
2012 Invention Awards: An Inflatable Abdominal Tourniquet
There Are a Million Billion x Five More Billion New Drugs Awaiting Discovery
FYI: Can a Bladder Actually Burst?
With New Prediction Algorithm, a Patient’s Past Foretells His Medical Future
Finnish Scientists Announce a Possible Universal Allergy Vaccine
An Integrated Circuit Made of Ions Could Bring Computing Into Your Cells
Snake Robots Will Soon Crawl Around Inside Your Body Off-Leash
Magnetic Jet Injection Device Can Shoot Any Drug Through the Skin, No Needle Required
Phineas Gage, Neurology’s Most Interesting Case, Gets His Head Re-Examined With a New Neural Map
FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Test that Diagnoses in Just 20 Minutes