Medicine(Page 15)

Insights into the healthcare system and the latest in pharmaceutical development.

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Regenerated heart

Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Beating Human Hearts From Stem Cells

By Alexandra Ossola

Stem Cells Can Regenerate The Lens In Your Eye

By Alexandra Ossola

How Does A Penis Transplant Work?

How Does A Penis Transplant Work?

By Alexandra Ossola

Chinese Scientists Turn Mouse Stem Cells Into Working Sperm Cells

Chinese Scientists Turn Mouse Stem Cells Into Working Sperm Cells

By Nicholas Raine-Fenning and Ioannis Sfontouris/The Conversation

“Genetic Scissors” Could Completely Eliminate HIV From Cells

“Genetic Scissors” Could Completely Eliminate HIV From Cells

By Alexandra Ossola

How Scientists Could Safely And Quickly Test A Zika Vaccine

How Scientists Could Safely And Quickly Test A Zika Vaccine

By Alexandra Ossola

Primary Truth

By Brooke Borel

U.S. Confirms First Case Of Zika Virus Transmitted Through Sex

U.S. Confirms First Case Of Zika Virus Transmitted Through Sex

By Claire Maldarelli

CRISPR Gene Editing Successfully Stops Muscular Dystrophy In Living Mice

CRISPR Gene Editing Successfully Stops Muscular Dystrophy In Living Mice

By Alexandra Ossola

Scientists Support Research On Gene Editing Of Human Embryos

Scientists Support Research On Gene Editing Of Human Embryos

By Claire Maldarelli

The Future Of Gene Editing Is Being Decided Right Now

By Claire Maldarelli

How We’ve Succeeded In Breaching The Blood-Brain Barrier At Last

How We’ve Succeeded In Breaching The Blood-Brain Barrier At Last

By Alexandra Ossola

CRISPR Variation Won’t Introduce New DNA To Plants

CRISPR Variation Won’t Introduce New DNA To Plants

By Alexandra Ossola

Allie Johnson, a patient at St. Jude

Learning from the Children

By Alexandra Ossola

This Test Can Detect Any Virus That Infects Humans

This Test Can Detect Any Virus That Infects Humans

By Claire Maldarelli

We Can Now Sequence A Whole Human Genome In 26 Hours

We Can Now Sequence A Whole Human Genome In 26 Hours

By Claire Maldarelli

What Would You Pay To Save Your Life?

What Would You Pay To Save Your Life?

By Rebecca Boyle

British Scientists Want Permission To Genetically Edit Viable Human Embryos

By Claire Maldarelli

Can Ozone Therapy Treat Ebola?

Can Ozone Therapy Treat Ebola?

By Alexandra Ossola

Stem Cell Experts Support Using CRISPR In Human Embryos

Stem Cell Experts Support Using CRISPR In Human Embryos

Everything You Need to Know About Precision Medicine

Everything You Need to Know About Precision Medicine

By Alexandra Ossola

Carbon Nanotube Implants Could Help Diagnose Medical Conditions

Carbon Nanotube Implants Could Help Diagnose Medical Conditions

By Alexandra Ossola

crispr gene editing

Should Bioethicists “Get Out Of The Way” Of CRISPR Research?

By Alexandra Ossola

New Ebola Vaccine Shows 100 Percent Effectiveness In Early Tests

New Ebola Vaccine Shows 100 Percent Effectiveness In Early Tests

By Grennan Milliken

New Treatment Lets Paralyzed Patients Move Their Legs

New Treatment Lets Paralyzed Patients Move Their Legs

By Claire Maldarelli

World’s First Malaria Vaccine Takes Another Step Forward

World’s First Malaria Vaccine Takes Another Step Forward

By Claire Maldarelli

Approved: Prosthetic Legs That Anchor Directly To The Bone

Approved: Prosthetic Legs That Anchor Directly To The Bone

You Can Now Crowdsource Your Medical Diagnoses, But Should You?

You Can Now Crowdsource Your Medical Diagnoses, But Should You?

By Alexandra Ossola

The Search For A Better Lethal Injection

The Search For A Better Lethal Injection

By Alexandra Ossola

Doctors Are Using Lasers To Treat People With Severe Psychological Conditions

Doctors Are Using Lasers To Treat People With Severe Psychological Conditions

By Alexandra Ossola

Gene Tests Are Quite Telling – Should You Get One?

Gene Tests Are Quite Telling – Should You Get One?

By Alexandra Ossola

The Cure-All

By Tyler Graham

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called “Female Viagra”

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called “Female Viagra”

By Jennifer Abbasi

Will Smoking Pot Get Rid Of Your Intestinal Worms?

Will Smoking Pot Get Rid Of Your Intestinal Worms?

By Alexandra Ossola

The Church Of George Church

The Church Of George Church

By Jeneen interlandi

Long Live The Mammoth

Long Live The Mammoth

By Beth Shapiro

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?

By Heather Hansman

Woolly Mammoth DNA Successfully Spliced Into Elephant Cells

Woolly Mammoth DNA Successfully Spliced Into Elephant Cells

Measles And The Power of Understanding

Measles And The Power of Understanding

By Cliff Ransom

Yes, You Can Reverse Disease

Yes, You Can Reverse Disease

Ebola-Plagued Countries Now Risk Deadly Measles Epidemic

Ebola-Plagued Countries Now Risk Deadly Measles Epidemic

Injectable Enzyme Stops Wounds From Bleeding

Injectable Enzyme Stops Wounds From Bleeding

By Alexandra Ossola

measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine by Merck and injection needle

16 African Countries Have ‘Overtaken The U.S.’ In Measles Vaccination Rate

By Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Stick-On Tattoo Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles

Stick-On Tattoo Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles

By Lydia Ramsey

Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff

Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff

By Alison Bruzek

How Nigeria’s Anti-Polio Strategy Helped It Wipe Out Ebola

How Nigeria’s Anti-Polio Strategy Helped It Wipe Out Ebola

By Francie Diep

IBM’s Watson Will Give You Health Advice Based On Your DNA

By Francie Diep

Toxin-Secreting Stem Cells May Destroy Brain Tumors From Inside Out

Toxin-Secreting Stem Cells May Destroy Brain Tumors From Inside Out

What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola?

What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola?

By Mary Beth Griggs

Building Better Knees For The NBA

Building Better Knees For The NBA

Editing The Genes Of Superbugs To Turn Off Antibiotic Resistance

Editing The Genes Of Superbugs To Turn Off Antibiotic Resistance

This Pill Can Stop HIV

This Pill Can Stop HIV

By Breanna Draxler

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ZMapp: The Experimental Ebola Treatment Explained

By Lois Parshley

De ano normales

Can a DNA Test for HPV Replace the Pap Smear?

By Hannah Waters

DNA. Medical science, genetic biotechnology, chemistry biology. Innovation technology concept and nano technology background

How DNA Scissors Can Perform Surgery Directly On Your Genes

By Nathalia Holt

What Does It Take To Make Meat From Stem Cells?

What Does It Take To Make Meat From Stem Cells?

By Francie Diep

Pig Heart Transplants For Humans Are On The Way

Pig Heart Transplants For Humans Are On The Way

By Francie Diep

First Human Clone Embryos Created From Adults’ Skin Cells

First Human Clone Embryos Created From Adults’ Skin Cells

By Francie Diep

Milestone Stem-Cell Paper Shows Signs Of Cheating, But The Cells Could Still Be Real

Milestone Stem-Cell Paper Shows Signs Of Cheating, But The Cells Could Still Be Real

By Francie Diep

More Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Evolving In Response To Its Vaccine

More Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Evolving In Response To Its Vaccine

By Francie Diep

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

By Francie Diep

A Glue That Seals Heart Defects

A Glue That Seals Heart Defects

By Francie Diep

Whooping Cough Has Evolved In Response To Its Vaccine

Whooping Cough Has Evolved In Response To Its Vaccine

By Francie Diep

Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]

Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]

By Kelsey D. Atherton