Medicine

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Microrobot capsule on tip of finger close up

These tiny robots swim through your blood to fight strokes

Neural implant sensor resting on grain of salt

This brain implant is smaller than a grain of rice

rotten eggs with black and white fuzzy mold on them

Stinky ‘rotten egg’ gas could fight nail infections

By Laura Baisas

Side-by-side of a coiled green mamba and a white llama

The secret ingredient in a snake antivenom? Llamas.

Kidney transplant in container

Donor organ’s blood type altered for the first time

empty capsules with a colorful capsule-like device in the middle

World’s smallest ‘bioprinter’ is the size of a pill

By Mack DeGeurin

peeled and open kiwis. they have green fruit with brown skins

Constipated? Try kiwis.

By Margherita Bassi

Smelt fish under ice. Fish spawning in river. Pacific smelt

Fake fish blood may save your ice cream from freezer burn

a fly with green and black coloring lands on a green leaf

Surgical tools could get a bug-inspired upgrade

By Laura Baisas

A small, light blue vintage box of TAMPAX tampons is shown resting on a white surface. The box has blue text that reads "Sanitary Protection + Worn Internally," "TAMPAX," and "Accepted for Advertising by The American Medical Association." A single tampon, wrapped in paper and plastic, leans against the box.

How WWI and WWII revolutionized period products

By Cat Rainsford

Empty dentist office showing tools and chair

Extreme fear of the dentist linked to childhood trauma

A colorized vintage photo shows a smiling blonde woman in a salmon-colored dress waving her hand while seated at a dark wooden counter or bar. Two men in white staff uniforms and hats are leaning over the counter, laughing with her, one of whom is holding a cigar. The other offers her a drink in a tall glass. Several other men in hats are visible in the background.

The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers

a mannequin with its neck skin being removed

3D-printed skin stretches, bleeds like the real thing

By Mack DeGeurin

a woman popping a red pimple on her chin

Researchers develop a pimple patch that actually seems to work

By Margherita Bassi

a woman sneezing by a window with sun streaming in

UV light can fight indoor allergens

By Laura Baisas

A thin section of a maize ear at a very early stage of development (about 3 millimeters long). Each color represents the expression of a different gene in stem cells and associated cells.

Want better corn? Color its stem cells.

white laboratory rat isolated on grey background

Researchers successfully heal rats’ broken spines

By Margherita Bassi

a robot dog walking with three humans

The perfect robot guide dog shouldn’t be cute

By Mack DeGeurin

a baby koala in a tree

First koala chlamydia vaccine approved

By Laura Baisas

How does anesthesia work? Experts still have questions.

By RJ Mackenzie