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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
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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
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Katie Peek and Ryan Bradley
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Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Repair Themselves After Sustaining Damage
Video: The Doctors Who Made the No-Pulse Heart
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Jeremiah Zagar
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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
Brilliant 10: Molecular Filmmaker
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
The Incredible Shrinking Shot: Needles Get a Pain-Free Makeover
Cuba Announces Release of the World’s First Lung Cancer Vaccine
Japanese Researchers Develop a Way to Turn Biological Tissue Transparent
New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches
New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection By Killing the Body’s Infected Cells
Harvard-MIT Team’s New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel Gives Voice to the Voiceless
Mice Molars Grown From Stem Cells Form Fully Functional, Transplantable Teeth
Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant
Lab Builds a Fully Functioning Artificial Small Intestine
The World’s First Self-Propelled Endoscopy Device ‘Swims’ the Entire Digestive Tract in Mere Hours
Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV
Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?
How Scientists Ship Snowmen to Bahrain, Chill Beer and Keep Vaccines Cool
Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell
Did Stem Cell Therapy Repair Bartolo Colon’s Broken Pitching Arm?
Transfusion of Synthetic Blood Saves Woman’s Life
“Heart Plungers” Keep Air Flowing During CPR
Experimental “Body Reboot” Drug Begins Trial As Preemptive Preventer Of Diabetes
Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe
Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
New Handheld Melanoma Scanner Instantly Identifies Skin Cancers With Laser Light
A Smart Pill Box Uses Face Recognition Tech to Ensure We Take Our Meds