Medicine(Page 15)

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First Human Clone Embryos Created From Adults’ Skin Cells

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 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 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 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 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 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] Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]

By Kelsey D. Atherton

5 Old-Timey Medical Treatments That Actually Work

5 Old-Timey Medical Treatments That Actually Work 5 Old-Timey Medical Treatments That Actually Work

Sex Positions That Won’t Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science

Sex Positions That Won’t Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science Sex Positions That Won’t Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science

By Shaunacy Ferro

7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings

7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings 7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings

By Francie Diep

Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors

Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors

By Shaunacy Ferro

Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish

Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish

By Shaunacy Ferro

Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video]

Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video] Watch Lab-Grown Heart Tissue Beat On Its Own [Video]

By Shaunacy Ferro

FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?

FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated? FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?

By Lana Birbrair

Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon

Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon

By Shaunacy Ferro

Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too

Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too

By Francie Diep

How To Argue With The Anti-Vaccine Crazies: A Guide

How To Argue With The Anti-Vaccine Crazies: A Guide How To Argue With The Anti-Vaccine Crazies: A Guide

By Francie Diep

Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years

Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years

By Dan Nosowitz

Japanese Scientist May Have To Grow His Human Organs In American Pigs

Japanese Scientist May Have To Grow His Human Organs In American Pigs Japanese Scientist May Have To Grow His Human Organs In American Pigs

By Dan Nosowitz

How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs

How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs

By Michael Rosenwald

New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards’ Tails

New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards’ Tails New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards’ Tails

By Dan Nosowitz

Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week

Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week

By Francie Diep

FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence?

FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence? FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence?

By Francie Diep

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

By Francie Diep

Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats

Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats

By Shaunacy Ferro

After 30 Years Off The Market, A Morning Sickness Drug Is Making A Comeback

After 30 Years Off The Market, A Morning Sickness Drug Is Making A Comeback After 30 Years Off The Market, A Morning Sickness Drug Is Making A Comeback

By Shaunacy Ferro

White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls

White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls

By Francie Diep

How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer

How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer

By Veronique Greenwood

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions

By Virginia Hughes

Your Immune System ‘Remembers’ Microbes It’s Never Fought Before, New Study Says

Your Immune System ‘Remembers’ Microbes It’s Never Fought Before, New Study Says Your Immune System ‘Remembers’ Microbes It’s Never Fought Before, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic]

This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic] This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science?

Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science? Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science?

By Colin Lecher

Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?

Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution? Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?

By Shaunacy Ferro

Stem Cell Surgery Led To Bones Growing In Patient’s Eye

Stem Cell Surgery Led To Bones Growing In Patient’s Eye Stem Cell Surgery Led To Bones Growing In Patient’s Eye

By Dan Nosowitz

Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing

Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing

Brand-New Vaccine Strategy Works Against Herpes, And Potentially HIV Brand-New Vaccine Strategy Works Against Herpes, And Potentially HIV

PopSci’s High School Inventors Of 2012

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By Katherine Bagley

Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?

Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds? Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?

Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets

Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets

By Theodore Gray

The Test Olympians Use to Improve Their Performance–On the Inside

The Test Olympians Use to Improve Their Performance–On the Inside The Test Olympians Use to Improve Their Performance–On the Inside

By Rebecca Boyle

The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component

The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component

Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs

Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs

By Spencer Woodman

FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Test that Diagnoses in Just 20 Minutes

FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Test that Diagnoses in Just 20 Minutes FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Test that Diagnoses in Just 20 Minutes

Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken

Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken

By Dan Nosowitz

The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA

The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA

Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unlimited Supply of Humans

Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unlimited Supply of Humans Human Eggs Grown in the Lab Could Produce Unlimited Supply of Humans

By Rebecca Boyle

How It Works: A Laser-Powered Ear Implant to Boost Hearing

How It Works: A Laser-Powered Ear Implant to Boost Hearing How It Works: A Laser-Powered Ear Implant to Boost Hearing

By Rebecca Boyle

Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools

Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools

By Rebecca Boyle

No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?

Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines? Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?

By Ryan Bradley

The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a Deadly Disease

The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a Deadly Disease The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a Deadly Disease

By Ryan Bradley

The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information

The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information

By Jennifer Abbasi

A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen

A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen

By Rebecca Boyle

Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras

Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras

By Rebecca Boyle

For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human’s Veins

For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human’s Veins For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human’s Veins

Disarming HIV Could Protect the Immune System and Potentially Lead to a Vaccine, New Study Shows

Disarming HIV Could Protect the Immune System and Potentially Lead to a Vaccine, New Study Shows Disarming HIV Could Protect the Immune System and Potentially Lead to a Vaccine, New Study Shows

By Rebecca Boyle

Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe

Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe

By Rebecca Boyle

The Incredible Shrinking Shot: Needles Get a Pain-Free Makeover

The Incredible Shrinking Shot: Needles Get a Pain-Free Makeover The Incredible Shrinking Shot: Needles Get a Pain-Free Makeover

By Lana Birbrair

New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches

New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches

By Rebecca Boyle

Harvard-MIT Team’s New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel Gives Voice to the Voiceless

Harvard-MIT Team’s New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel Gives Voice to the Voiceless Harvard-MIT Team’s New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel Gives Voice to the Voiceless

Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant

Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant

Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV

Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV

By Rebecca Boyle

Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?

Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next? Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?

By Emily Anthes

Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell

Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell

By Rebecca Boyle