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Breakthrough Study That Found Consciousness In Vegetative Patients Was Flawed
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Electrical Current Can Unlock The Seriously Good Drugs In Your Brain
10 Of The Greatest Health-Tech Innovations Of 2012
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Unproven Stem-Cell Cosmetic Treatments Can Grow Bones In Your Eyes
Stem Cell Surgery Led To Bones Growing In Patient’s Eye
Paralyzed Woman Can Eat A Chocolate Bar, With Graceful Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
Science Can Now Turn Human Urine Into Brain Cells
Sperm Count Is Falling In France, And Globally, Too, Study Says
With Electrodes Implanted In The Retina, Blind Patient Can Read
Injectable Sponges Can Expand Inside The Body To Deliver Drugs
Teenage Gamers Are Better At Virtual Surgery Than MDs
Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing
Brand-New Vaccine Strategy Works Against Herpes, And Potentially HIV
Why Is NASA Developing Nasal Spray For The Masses?
PopSci’s High School Inventors Of 2012
A New Artificial Heart Pump That Mimics the Real Thing
Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?
A New Tack for HIV Vaccines, and Why This Problem Is So Hard to Solve
How to Stop a Pandemic
Researchers Manipulate the Dreams of Rats, Opening the Door to ‘Dream Engineering’
Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets
Scientists Turn Adult White Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
Autotransfusion Device Collects Stray Blood During Surgery and Pumps it Back Into the Patient
The Test Olympians Use to Improve Their Performance–On the Inside
Video: Jellyfish Made From Silicone and Rat’s Heart Cells Swims and Beats Like a Heart
A Topically Applied Skin Lotion That Modifies Your Genes
With New Nicotine Vaccine, Cigarettes Give You No Pleasure
The World’s First Successfully Implanted Synthetic Larynx Component
Injecting Oxygen Directly into the Bloodstream Could Save Suffocating Patients
Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs
Researchers Grow Functioning Human Liver Tissue from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Finnish Scientists Announce a Possible Universal Allergy Vaccine
Magnetic Jet Injection Device Can Shoot Any Drug Through the Skin, No Needle Required
FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Test that Diagnoses in Just 20 Minutes
New Light-Powered Eye Implants Use Infrared Pulses to Restore Sight
Wristband Sensors Can Detect, and Possibly Predict, Life-Threatening Seizures
Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken
The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA
The World’s First Transgenic, ‘Handmade’ Cloned Sheep is Alive and Well in China
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
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
Scientists Use Stem Cells to Generate Human Eggs in the Lab
The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information
A Wirelessly Controlled Pharmacy Dispenses Drugs From Within Your Abdomen
Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human’s Veins
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Disarming HIV Could Protect the Immune System and Potentially Lead to a Vaccine, New Study Shows
Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe
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