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Birth Control Pills Shown to Alter Structure of Women’s Brains
The Human Connectome Project Is a First-of-its-Kind Map of the Brain’s Circuitry
Cockroach Brains Could Hold the Key to Next Generation of Antibiotics
First Ever Real-Time MRI Video Captures Images of Body’s Interior in Just 20 Milliseconds
A Protein Killer Could Treat All Cancers, and Possibly All Illnesses
A New Superbacteria, Immune To Most Antibiotics, Found Spreading Fast
MIT’s New Glucose Meter Checks Blood Sugar Levels With Painless Infrared Light
How Pharmaceutical Companies Turn Genetically Modified Livestock Into Drug Factories
An Artificial Inner Ear To Eliminate Vertigo
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Mouse Grimace Scale Measures the Agony of Lab Animals
Antibacterial Graphene ‘Paper’ Could Lead to Better Bandages
Rise of the Helpful Machines
Bionic Dick Cheney Technically Has No Pulse
Newly Discovered Antibody Defeats 91 Percent of HIV Strains
First Batch of DARPA’s Synthetic Blood Delivered to FDA, Could Be on Battlefields Soon
FDA Approves First Telescopic Eye Implant to Treat Blindness
Stem Cells Shown to Restore Sight To Eyes Damaged By Burns
Can Physicians Who Work on Humans Treat Animals Too?
Breakthrough In Magnet Technology Could Lead to Handheld MRI Scanners
Stem-Cell Tourism: Adventures at the Fringes of Experimental Medicine
Plastic Antibodies Shown to Fight Off Antigens in the Body Just Like the Real Thing
Nano-ink Tattoos Could Continuously Monitor Glucose in Diabetics
Invention Awards: An Inexpensive, Portable Ventilator
Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth Right In Your Mouth
Tobacco May Keep Us from Catching the Flu
Student Invents Silicone “Tampons” To Harvest Monthly Menstrual Stem Cells
Newest Gates Foundation Grants Include Sweat-Activated Vaccines, Laser-Guided Parasite Killers
A Three-Inch Bio-Detector Quickly Scans For All the Bacteria and Viruses We Know Of, All at Once
Chemical Cocktail Keeps Resurrected Heart Alive for 10 Days Outside of Body
Doctors Perform First-Ever Full Facial Transplant
Fix Farsightedness by Sleeping in Your Contacts
Bio-Sensing Underwear Keeps Tabs on Your Body’s Chemistry
U.K. Launches a Largest-Ever Effort to Turn Genetic Info Into Better Medical Treatments
Pyroelectric Crystals Could Enable the First Truly Portable X-Ray Machine
Scientists Devise A Means For Human Bodies To Break Down Carbon Nanotubes
Chip in a Pill Tells Your Doctor When You Swallow Your Medicine — and When You Don’t
Human Bones Successfully Grown in Lab From Stem Cells
Tested: A Reboot for the Immune System
Gold Nanoparticles and Lasers Kill the Brain Parasite That Causes “Crazy Cat Lady” Syndrome
A New Breed of Medical Screws Dissolve In Body and Promote Bone Growth
In Blitz to Kill One Kind of Infectious Bacteria, Other Untreatable Strains Emerge
Texas Secretly Gave The Blood of 800 Newborns to DNA Database
Scorpion Venom Could Make a Safe Alternative to Morphine
For Test-Tube Babies, Synthetic Environment Could Cause Lasting Genetic Damage
Ultrasound Beams Could Destroy Stroke-Causing Blood Clots in the Brain
Genetically Engineered Pig Lung Successfully Oxygenates Human Blood, Paving the Way For Transplants
Marijuana Research Offers New Hope For Male Birth Control Pill
By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints
Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History
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Brain Scan Shows Vegetative Patient Responding To Yes-or-No Questions
Insulin Can Now Be Made Cheaply from Flowers
Compound LJ001 Acts Like Antibiotic Against Viruses
Synthetic Skin Delivers Gene Therapies Straight to Body, No Needles Necessary
Unwanted Side Effect: Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take 10 Times More Cocaine
Wood-Based Synthetic Bone is Just Like the Real Thing
First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order
Details Of Brain-Implanted Speech Synthesizer For Locked-In Syndrome Revealed In New Paper
Inhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB Vaccine
New Artificial Larynx Does Away With Dreaded ‘Robot Voice’
Optical Sensors in Robots’ Skin Give Them A Softer Touch
Man Diagnosed ‘Comatose’ For 23 Years Was Actually Conscious All Along
Yikes: Peruvian Jungle Gang Arrested for Selling Fat of Its Murder Victims
Anti-Paralysis Shot Improves Spinal Recovery Three Times As Fast
Italian Court Reduces Murderer’s Sentence Due To Presence of Gene Linked To Violence