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By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints
Health

By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints

By Clay Dillow

Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History
Science

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
Health

Brain Scan Shows Vegetative Patient Responding To Yes-or-No Questions

By Stuart Fox

Insulin Can Now Be Made Cheaply from Flowers
Health

Insulin Can Now Be Made Cheaply from Flowers

By Stuart Fox

SARS
Health

Compound LJ001 Acts Like Antibiotic Against Viruses

By Stuart Fox

Synthetic Skin Delivers Gene Therapies Straight to Body, No Needles Necessary
Health

Synthetic Skin Delivers Gene Therapies Straight to Body, No Needles Necessary

By Clay Dillow

Unwanted Side Effect: Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take 10 Times More Cocaine
Health

Unwanted Side Effect: Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take 10 Times More Cocaine

By Stuart Fox

Wood-Based Synthetic Bone is Just Like the Real Thing
Health

Wood-Based Synthetic Bone is Just Like the Real Thing

By Clay Dillow

First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order
Health

First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order

By Stuart Fox

Inhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB Vaccine
Health

Inhalable Chocolate Paves the Way for a Safer TB Vaccine

By Jenny Everett

New Artificial Larynx Does Away With Dreaded ‘Robot Voice’
Health

New Artificial Larynx Does Away With Dreaded ‘Robot Voice’

By Stuart Fox

Man Diagnosed ‘Comatose’ For 23 Years Was Actually Conscious All Along
Health

Man Diagnosed ‘Comatose’ For 23 Years Was Actually Conscious All Along

By Clay Dillow

Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009
Health

Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009

By Sandeep Ravindran

Nobel Prize Awarded for Contributions to the Quest for Immortality
Health

Nobel Prize Awarded for Contributions to the Quest for Immortality

By Jeremy Hsu

The State of the Art of Electronic Noses
Environment

The State of the Art of Electronic Noses

By Rebecca Boyle

Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O
Technology

Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O

By Corey Binns

Health

Virtual-Reality Dental Training Is as Gory as You’d Expect

By Laura Silver

The Essential Guide to Stem Cells
Health

The Essential Guide to Stem Cells

By Elizabeth Svoboda

The Next Phage
Health

The Next Phage

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Hunting The Elusive Fat Pill
Health

Hunting The Elusive Fat Pill

By Eric Hagerman

Cannibal Bacteria Kills Siblings
Health

Cannibal Bacteria Kills Siblings

By Brooke Borel

Freezing the heart to save the life
Health

Freezing the heart to save the life

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

Seven Little Piggies Make History
Health

Seven Little Piggies Make History

By SciIll Staff

Foreskin for Clear Skin?
Health

Foreskin for Clear Skin?

By Julia Wallace

Discovery of a “Transsexual Gene” Raises More Questions Than Answers
Health

Discovery of a “Transsexual Gene” Raises More Questions Than Answers

By Julia Wallace

A Little Off the Top, S’Il Vous Plait
Health

A Little Off the Top, S’Il Vous Plait

By Isadora Botwinick

Ghost Heart
Health

Ghost Heart

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Special Operations
Health

Special Operations

By Isadora Botwinick

Of Brain Disease and Belly Ache
Health

Of Brain Disease and Belly Ache

By Isadora Botwinick

This Pill Will Change Your Life
Health

This Pill Will Change Your Life

By Stuart Fox

Rebuilding the Troops
Health

Rebuilding the Troops

By Amanda Schupak

How It Works: The Endoscope Camera in a Pill
Health

How It Works: The Endoscope Camera in a Pill

By Gregory Mone

Better Than Blood?
Health

Better Than Blood?

By Nicole Davis

Artificial Wombs
Health

Artificial Wombs

By Gretchen Reynolds

Seven Deadly Sins
Health

Seven Deadly Sins

By Joseph Hooper

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