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Training Machines to Detect the Smell Of Death
Health

Training Machines to Detect the Smell Of Death

By Susannah F. Locke

Cyborg Update: Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids Add iPod Input To Your Skull
Health

Cyborg Update: Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids Add iPod Input To Your Skull

By Adrian Covert

Lab-on-a-Chip Can Carry Out Over 1,000 Chemical Reactions at Once
Health

Lab-on-a-Chip Can Carry Out Over 1,000 Chemical Reactions at Once

By Adrian Covert

Stem Cells Used To Grow a New Tooth Inside a Mouse’s Mouth
Health

Stem Cells Used To Grow a New Tooth Inside a Mouse’s Mouth

By Stuart Fox

Music-Powered Lab-On-A-Chip Promises Easier Health Screening
Health

Music-Powered Lab-On-A-Chip Promises Easier Health Screening

By Anna Maria Jakubek

CAVEman 3-D Virtual Patient Is a Holodeck For the Human Body
Health

CAVEman 3-D Virtual Patient Is a Holodeck For the Human Body

By Corey Binns

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

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

By Corey Binns

Tested: Bedside Brainwave Scanner Grades Your Ability to Sleep
Health

Tested: Bedside Brainwave Scanner Grades Your Ability to Sleep

By Paul Adams

Health

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

By Laura Silver

Control a Robot with Your Mind
Health

Control a Robot with Your Mind

By Corey Binns

Cool Plasma Blowtorch Kills Plaque, Cleans Teeth, Makes Obi-Wan Proud
Health

Cool Plasma Blowtorch Kills Plaque, Cleans Teeth, Makes Obi-Wan Proud

By Stuart Fox

A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players’ Health
Gear

A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players’ Health

By Brett Zarda

Stem-Cell-Coated Contact Lenses Are Curing the Blind
Health

Stem-Cell-Coated Contact Lenses Are Curing the Blind

By Dan Smith

The Essential Guide to Stem Cells
Health

The Essential Guide to Stem Cells

By Elizabeth Svoboda

PharmaSat to Test Drugs in Space
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PharmaSat to Test Drugs in Space

By Laurie J. Schmidt

The Future — and Past — of Surgery
Health

The Future — and Past — of Surgery

By Stuart Fox

The Next Phage
Health

The Next Phage

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Micro-worms to the Rescue?
Health

Micro-worms to the Rescue?

By Susannah Locke

Hunting The Elusive Fat Pill
Health

Hunting The Elusive Fat Pill

By Eric Hagerman

HIV Resistance Through Oral Sex?
Diseases

HIV Resistance Through Oral Sex?

By Julia Wallace

You Want to Put What Where?
Health

You Want to Put What Where?

By Isadora Botwinick

Cannibal Bacteria Kills Siblings
Health

Cannibal Bacteria Kills Siblings

By Brooke Borel

Kidney Donation: Less Painful than Childbirth
Health

Kidney Donation: Less Painful than Childbirth

By Christine Cyr

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

Diseases

A Cure for AIDS

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

The Latest Man-Made Organs
Health

The Latest Man-Made Organs

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

Man Regenerates Finger
Health

Man Regenerates Finger

By Matt Ransford

How It Works: The Endoscope Camera in a Pill
Health

How It Works: The Endoscope Camera in a Pill

By Gregory Mone

Shock to the System
Health

Shock to the System

By Gregory Mone

Better Than Blood?
Health

Better Than Blood?

By Nicole Davis

In 2021 You’ll Grow a New Heart
Health

In 2021 You’ll Grow a New Heart

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Artificial Wombs
Health

Artificial Wombs

By Gretchen Reynolds

Can We Cure Everything?
Health

Can We Cure Everything?

By Dawn Stover

Seven Deadly Sins
Health

Seven Deadly Sins

By Joseph Hooper

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