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Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms
Newest Gates Foundation Grants Include Sweat-Activated Vaccines, Laser-Guided Parasite Killers
It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab
You may not need to finish your antibiotics (but you probably still should)
A Glue That Seals Heart Defects
IBM’s Watson Will Give You Health Advice Based On Your DNA
Student Invents Silicone “Tampons” To Harvest Monthly Menstrual Stem Cells
Seven Deadly Sins
Tobacco May Keep Us from Catching the Flu
Man With Fully Artificial Heart Gains New Mobility With Smallest-Ever Portable Power Pack
Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth Right In Your Mouth
A stomach grown in a petri dish could help scientists understand our guts
What does it take to convince people to get vaccinated?
Minimally Invasive Surgical Bot, Snaking In Through a Vein, Could Cut Down on Open Heart Surgeries
New Muscle Programming Method Uses DNA To Turn Blood Into Beating Heart Cells
To get vaccines to more people, the priority system needs to loosen up
Invention Awards: An Inexpensive, Portable Ventilator
‘Retina in a Dish’ is the Most Complex Tissue Ever Engineered in the Lab
Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain
A Decade After Committing Massive Fraud, A Cloning Scientist Is Back To Work
How rural America is making the haphazard vaccine rollout work
Nano-ink Tattoos Could Continuously Monitor Glucose in Diabetics
Researchers Isolate Chemical Signal that Causes Stem Cells to Repair Skin
The places where Americans aren’t wearing masks
Researchers used CRISPR to encode a movie into DNA
This may be the most promising herpes vaccine ever
First Preventative Cancer Vaccine Demonstrated to Work in Mice
Study Turns Up Viral Key That Might Lead to Universal Flu Treatment
Personalized vaccines could help the immune system fight cancer
Plastic Antibodies Shown to Fight Off Antigens in the Body Just Like the Real Thing
Costa Rica Discontinues Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
Stem-Cell Tourism: Adventures at the Fringes of Experimental Medicine
Doctors successfully treat two babies with leukemia using gene-edited immune cells
The US is way behind on tracking COVID-19 variants
Breakthrough In Magnet Technology Could Lead to Handheld MRI Scanners
Easy New Ways To Make Stem Cells, With A Squeeze Or A Dip
Texas Man Receives First American Full-Face Transplant
Scientists Make Hair-Growing Cells From Ordinary Skin Cells
Toxin-Secreting Stem Cells May Destroy Brain Tumors From Inside Out
Experimental “Body Reboot” Drug Begins Trial As Preemptive Preventer Of Diabetes
There’s a new COVID-19 vaccine in the running—but variants could pose a problem
Can Physicians Who Work on Humans Treat Animals Too?
Does Slacktivism Really Drive Science Forward?
Injection Of Brain Nerve Cells Into Spine Helps Paralyzed Man Walk Again
What you can do right now to protect yourself from the new COVID-19 variants
COVID-19 vaccines could end the pandemic by eliminating severe cases
Is it too late for me to get a flu shot?
At Last: Technology To Make Injections Painless
The US finally has a national mask mandate
What Happens After Someone Survives Ebola?
What you should know about allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine
Using Stem Cells, Scientists Re-Create Memory Neurons That Succumb to Alzheimer’s
Stem Cells Shown to Restore Sight To Eyes Damaged By Burns
Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe
Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole
Pregnant people can—and should—get vaccinated against COVID-19
There’s More Than One Way To Cure Diseases With Genes
Israel leads the world in vaccination rates, but a key group is missing from the data
U.S. science advisory committee supports genetic modification of human embryos
Scientists may have just made a malaria vaccine breakthrough
No, the woolly mammoth won’t actually be resurrected by 2019
Who should be allowed to use CRISPR?
The Brilliant Ten: Katharina Ribbeck Makes Antibiotic Alternatives Out Of Mucus
First Batch of DARPA’s Synthetic Blood Delivered to FDA, Could Be on Battlefields Soon