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With two COVID-19 vaccines available, the CDC updates its guidance on who gets them first
Changing the Language of DNA: Altered Cells Taught To Read 4-Base-Pair Codons
Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain
Scorpion Venom Could Make a Safe Alternative to Morphine
For Test-Tube Babies, Synthetic Environment Could Cause Lasting Genetic Damage
Texas Secretly Gave The Blood of 800 Newborns to DNA Database
Sex Positions That Won’t Break Your Artificial Hip, According To Science
Five good-news health stories from this past year
Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes With Disabled Wings Join Fight Against Dengue Fever
California’s hepatitis A outbreak shows why people need easy access to health care
Forget The EpiPen—It’s Time For An Epi-Pill
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Why two doses of the new COVID-19 vaccines are better than one
In Blitz to Kill One Kind of Infectious Bacteria, Other Untreatable Strains Emerge
The first smallpox vaccine changed the world—but we’re still not sure what was in it
Ending the pandemic means vaccinating the whole world—but the US is focusing on itself
Can you spread COVID-19 after vaccination? Here’s what we know.
The ‘darkest days’ of COVID-19 are still to come
You should get the flu shot—even if it won’t keep you from getting sick
A New Breed of Medical Screws Dissolve In Body and Promote Bone Growth
Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk
A Mysterious Nerve Condition Paralyzed Half My Face
Promising Results For Experimental Ebola Vaccine
Is living forever going to suck?
Gold Nanoparticles and Lasers Kill the Brain Parasite That Causes “Crazy Cat Lady” Syndrome
Harvard-MIT Team’s New Synthetic Vocal Cord Gel Gives Voice to the Voiceless
The First Trial of an Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment for Blindness Begins in California
Mice Molars Grown From Stem Cells Form Fully Functional, Transplantable Teeth
Tested: A Reboot for the Immune System
The new, more-contagious UK COVID-19 strain is officially in the US
Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff
Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant
An Israeli Biocomputer Can Now Detect Multiple Signs of Disease from Inside the Body
Lab Builds a Fully Functioning Artificial Small Intestine
The world may be at risk of a new COVID-19 surge
There’s No Need To Fear Gene-Edited Food
Bluetooth-Enabled ‘Smart Hip’ Monitors Joint Implants from Within the Body
In First Successful Human Trial, Nanotech Robots Deploy Cancer-Fighting RNA
You can test positive for COVID-19 after a vaccine—but that doesn’t mean the shots don’t work
The World’s First Self-Propelled Endoscopy Device ‘Swims’ the Entire Digestive Tract in Mere Hours
Vaccines conquered smallpox and polio, but COVID-19 looks like a tougher battle
Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV
COVID-19 immunity could be long term
A Dose of Embryonic Cells Could Induce Infant-Like ‘Plasticity’ in Brain, Allowing it to Rewire Itself Like New
Human Bones Successfully Grown in Lab From Stem Cells
Could Drugs Heal A Broken Heart?
Found: A Weird New Pluripotent Cell Type
Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?
What IUDs are, how they work, and why you might want to get one
Chip in a Pill Tells Your Doctor When You Swallow Your Medicine — and When You Don’t
Tiny Buckyballs Could Put Fast-Spreading Cancer Cells into Suspended Animation
Drug Flags Malaria-Infected Cells For Destruction
Wireless brain implants are helping paralyzed monkeys walk again
PARC Develops iPod-Sized HIV-Detection Device to Bring Affordable Testing To Rural Communities
Is one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine enough?
There is no evidence that flu vaccines cause miscarriages
This pill delivers medication days or weeks after it’s swallowed
Human patient treated with CRISPR gene editing for the first time
Scientists Devise A Means For Human Bodies To Break Down Carbon Nanotubes
Pyroelectric Crystals Could Enable the First Truly Portable X-Ray Machine
Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . .
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Inkjet Cell Fabricator Prints Healing Flesh Directly Onto Wounds
Nanotech Vaccine Successfully Cures Type-1 Diabetes in Mice
How Scientists Ship Snowmen to Bahrain, Chill Beer and Keep Vaccines Cool
Gold Nanosensors Can Be Implanted in the Body to Continuously Monitor for Blood Clots and Trace Proteins
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