Latest Medicine Stories
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
British Engineer Designs Own Heart Valve Implant, Saves Own Life
Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells
British Doctor Faked Data Linking Vaccines to Autism, and Aimed to Profit From It
For the First Time, DNA Sequencing Technology Saves A Child’s Life
Google’s Body Browser is a Google Earth for Human Physiology
Science’s Favorite Self-Experimenters, Self-Endangerers, and Self-Agonizers
Implant Uses A Microchip Embedded in the Spine To Edit Out Chronic Pain
Via Stem Cell Transplant, German Doctors Say They’ve Cured a Patient’s HIV
A Simple, Tentacle-Like Prosthesis Gets a Grip, to Leave the Biological Hand Free
Harvard Reverses Aging Process in Mice, Could Lead to Human Anti-Aging Treatments
For The First Time, Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are Released Into The Wild
Video: Nurse Robot Gives Human A Sponge Bath, With Just the Right Amount of Force
Researchers Transform Skin Cells Directly Into Blood Cells
With Chip Implanted In Retina, Blind Finnish Man Can Read
In Japanese Study, Stem Cell Injections Shown to Provide Simple Route to Breast Augmentation
Micro-Engraved Lenses Give Perfect Vision to Both Near- and Far-Sighted Eyes
Archive Gallery: Wildly Experimental Medical Procedures
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
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