Medicine (Page 16)

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

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Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors
Medicine

Robo-Maggots Will Munch Through Brain Tumors

By Shaunacy Ferro

Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish
Stem Cells

Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish

By Shaunacy Ferro

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

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

By Shaunacy Ferro

FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?
Medicine

FYI: Are Organs Ever Re-Donated?

By Lana Birbrair

Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon
Medicine

Getting Heart Surgery? Wait For The Full Moon

By Shaunacy Ferro

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

Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too

By Francie Diep

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

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

By Francie Diep

Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years
Medicine

Woman Drinks Coke Instead Of Water For 16 Years

By Dan Nosowitz

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

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

By Dan Nosowitz

How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs
Medicine

How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs

By Michael Rosenwald

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

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

By Dan Nosowitz

Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week
Vaccines

Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week

By Francie Diep

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

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

By Francie Diep

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo
Stem Cells

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

By Francie Diep

Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats
Vaccines

Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats

By Shaunacy Ferro

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

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
Vaccines

White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls

By Francie Diep

How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer
Medicine

How It Works: The Fastest DNA Sequencer

By Veronique Greenwood

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions
Medicine

How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions

By Virginia Hughes

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

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

By Rebecca Boyle

This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic]
Medicine

This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science?
Medicine

Is Dr. Oz Bad For Science?

By Colin Lecher

Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?
Medicine

Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?

By Shaunacy Ferro

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

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

By Dan Nosowitz

Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing
Medicine

Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing

By Adam Baer

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

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

By Clay Dillow

PopSci’s High School Inventors Of 2012
Medicine

PopSci’s High School Inventors Of 2012

By Katherine Bagley

Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?
Medicine

Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?

By Emily Elert

Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets
Medicine

Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets

By Theodore Gray

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

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

By Rebecca Boyle

The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component
Medicine

The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component

By Clay Dillow

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

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
Medicine

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

By Clay Dillow

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

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
Medicine

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

By Clay Dillow

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

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
Medicine

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
Medicine

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
Medicine

No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

By Dan Baum

Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?
Medicine

Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?

By Ryan Bradley

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

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
Medicine

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
Medicine

A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen

By Rebecca Boyle

Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
Stem Cells

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
Stem Cells

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

By Sean Kane

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

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
Stem Cells

Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe

By Rebecca Boyle

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

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
Medicine

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
Medicine

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

By Clay Dillow

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

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

By Clay Dillow

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

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 Cells

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
Stem Cells

Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell

By Rebecca Boyle

Did Stem Cell Therapy Repair Bartolo Colon’s Broken Pitching Arm?
Stem Cells

Did Stem Cell Therapy Repair Bartolo Colon’s Broken Pitching Arm?

By Clay Dillow

“Heart Plungers” Keep Air Flowing During CPR
Medicine

“Heart Plungers” Keep Air Flowing During CPR

By Caitlin Kearney

Experimental “Body Reboot” Drug Begins Trial As Preemptive Preventer Of Diabetes
Medicine

Experimental “Body Reboot” Drug Begins Trial As Preemptive Preventer Of Diabetes

By Catherine Price

Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe
Medicine

Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe

By Virginia Hughes

Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
Medicine

Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In

By Brooke Borel

Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells
Stem Cells

Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells

By Rebecca Boyle

British Doctor Faked Data Linking Vaccines to Autism, and Aimed to Profit From It
Vaccines

British Doctor Faked Data Linking Vaccines to Autism, and Aimed to Profit From It

By Rebecca Boyle

Implant Uses A Microchip Embedded in the Spine To Edit Out Chronic Pain
Medicine

Implant Uses A Microchip Embedded in the Spine To Edit Out Chronic Pain

By Clay Dillow

Via Stem Cell Transplant, German Doctors Say They’ve Cured a Patient’s HIV
Stem Cells

Via Stem Cell Transplant, German Doctors Say They’ve Cured a Patient’s HIV

By Clay Dillow

In Japanese Study, Stem Cell Injections Shown to Provide Simple Route to Breast Augmentation
Stem Cells

In Japanese Study, Stem Cell Injections Shown to Provide Simple Route to Breast Augmentation

By Lizzie Schiffman