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Machine Keeps Human Liver Alive And Functioning Outside The Body For 24 Hours
This could double the amount of livers available for transplant and save thousands of lives. Livers for everyone!
How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain
Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius.
3-D-Printed Implant Replaces 75 Percent Of Man’s Skull
How long until we can successfully 3-D print a whole human?
Super-Precise Laser Scalpel Minimizes Collateral Damage
An ultra-fast tiny laser can work as a miniature scalpel inside the body, making careful incisions or excisions while leaving...
Scottish Doctors Use Ultrasound to Heal Broken Bones
Did you know it was Glasgow docs who developed diagnostic ultrasound in the 1950s?
Microbots Spin Molecules to Swim Through Blood Vessels and Make Repairs
A lopsided self-propelled micromotor could drive itself through blood vessels, making repairs or delivering drugs along the route, according to...
Ford Wants Your Next Car to Monitor Your Vital Signs as You Drive
Using in-car monitoring apps to keep an eye on things like blood sugar
First Commercial 3-D Bioprinter Fabricates Organs To Order
The problem with organ transplants is that the organ has to come from someone else. Since most people rather fancy...
US Special Forces Field-Testing Plasma Knife
Emergency medical care for soldiers wounded on the battlefield has come a long way since Hawkeye and Hot Lips. But...
The Beetle as Muse
Engineers copy a toxic-jet-spewing beetle to design better drug-delivery devices, fire extinguishers and more