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Electrical Engineer Can Feel Magnetic Fields Through Magnets Implanted in His Fingertips
New Light-Powered Eye Implants Use Infrared Pulses to Restore Sight
Wristband Sensors Can Detect, and Possibly Predict, Life-Threatening Seizures
Using the Microsoft Kinect to Detect Autism
Nanocomposite Cavity Filler Reverses Decay, Killing Bacteria and Regenerating Tooth Structure
Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken
South Korea Targets Smuggled Capsules of Human Flesh
Using Magnetic Bacteria to Construct the Biocomputer of the Future
A Personal Simulation of Your Blood Could Help Doctors Study Disease
Classic FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA
Using Big Data and Genomics to Create the Ultimate Dairy Cow
Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You’re Healed
Facebook Now Lets You Advertise Your Organs on Your Profile
Super-Precise Laser Scalpel Minimizes Collateral Damage
In a Medical First, Doctors Transplant the Same Kidney Twice in Two Weeks
First Treatment for Prion-Based Brain Diseases Involves Glowing Polymers
The World’s First Transgenic, ‘Handmade’ Cloned Sheep is Alive and Well in China
Can Eating Buckyball-Infused Olive Oil Prolong Your Lifespan?
Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unlimited Supply of Humans
How It Works: A Laser-Powered Ear Implant to Boost Hearing
Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools
Tattooing Teeth With Graphene Could Warn of Bacteria and Dental Decay
PopSci Q&A: The Quest for a Male Contraceptive
High Court Rejects Patents on Genes, Sending Breast Cancer Gene Case Back to Square One
Petite Particle Accelerator: A Proton Gun For Killing Tumors
Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Invests $300 Million Into Mapping the Brain
A Mouse Made Just For You Will Model Your Medical Problems
Personal Monitoring Tech: Invasion of the Body Trackers
By the Numbers: Flu Season, Visualized
Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Repair Themselves After Sustaining Damage
Video: The Doctors Who Made the No-Pulse Heart
No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart
Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?
The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a Deadly Disease
Steer Your Wheelchair With Your Computerized Tongue Piercing
Scientists Use Stem Cells to Generate Human Eggs in the Lab
The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information
Video: Wireless Devices Swim Through Your Bloodstream and Fix You Up, ‘Fantastic Voyage’ Style
How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
FYI: Will People Ever Evolve Out of Craving Unhealthy Food?
FYI: Do Competitive Eaters Have Unusual Stomachs?
Depression Can Be Diagnosed With a Blood Test
Future of Medicine
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A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen
March 2012: The Future of Medicine
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A Smartphone That Detects Whether Its User Is Depressed
Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth
Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person?
Doctors Grow Parkinsonian Human Brain Cells In Vitro, Shedding Light on the Genetics of the Disease
83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant
Chili Crab Dinner Inspires Robot That Crawls Down Your Throat To Grab Your Cancer
Handheld Pathogen Sensor Could Diagnose HIV in 30 Minutes
Hip-Hop Basslines Could Power Implantable Medical Devices
Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
Zapping Testicles With Ultrasonic Pulses Shown To Be Effective Contraceptive
Video: Researchers Produce the First High-Quality 3-D Images of an Individual Protein
Video: New Quantum Dot Tech Could Boost Current Optical Fiber Band Tenfold
A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science
Video: How Flies Somersault to Safety Just Before You Swat Them
Microrockets Can Zip Around the Human Stomach, Powered by Hydrogen Bubbles
MIT’s Nano-Bio-Bandage Can Stop Your Bleeding Almost Immediately
To Track Mental Illness, Researchers Are Taking the DNA Of Century-Old Brains In Jars