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A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

A blind man who went through brain surgery to get outfitted with a new bionic eye says he can see some things for the first time in years.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.
Bacteria

By Kristin Houser

Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect personal medical records from millions of Americans.
Medical

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that vaping is just as bad for your heart as is smoking cigarettes. In some ways, vapes are even worse.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

One man recently got a double lung transplant because he vaped so much that he caused irreparable damage to his respiratory system.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A new cancer drug cuts off tumor cells' food supply while also seemingly supercharging the immune systems' cancer-destroying T cells.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Scientists used stem cells to grow a living mouse embryo in a lab without using any sperm or egg cells whatsoever for the first time.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Public health researcher Joel Moskowitz argues that we don't yet understand the risks of 5G, such as causing cancer, and that more research is necessary.
Cancer

By Jon Christian

Treatments

By Futurism Creative

Watch the First Video of a Virus Growing in Real-Time
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Medical experiments conducted on astronauts in orbit could have far-reaching implications for medicine back home on Earth.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor behind the young blood transfusion clinic Ambrosia is back with a mysterious new venture — a transfusion clinic called Ivy Plasma.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

After finding that simulated zero gravity killed off cancer cells, a team of doctors wants to send samples up to the International Space Station.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

The first large-scale study of a polypill showed the cheap, once-daily medication was able to prevent cardiovascular disease.
RX and Medicine

By Kristin Houser

The FDA has proposed 13 new cigarette warnings, each featuring a statement on the health impacts of smoking along with a color image.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found a less intensive, more effective cure against the most dangerous strain of tuberculosis, which infects 10 million every year.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

The first trial of a chlamydia vaccine in humans delivered promising results, with researchers already looking forward to the next steps.
RX and Medicine

By Kristin Houser

An experiment called BioRock is figuring out whether bacteria could turn space rocks into farmable soil for future off-world settlements.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

IBM just announced that it was making three of its artificial intelligence projects designed to help doctors and cancer researchers open-source.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just announced a recall of Allergan breast implants, linking the manufacturer to hundreds of cases of a rare cancer.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's biggest pharmaceuticals, is set to begin human trials of an HIV vaccine in the U.S. and Europe.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.
Bacteria

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists successfully tested a laser that can track down cancer cells and kill them — all by simply shining a light from outside the skin.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese artist Guo O Dong is selling a laptop infected with the six most dangeous viruses in history for $1.2 million dollars.
Viruses

By Natalie Coleman

In order to kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists are gene-hacking viruses to target the bacteria and kill them from the inside.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic pollutants in the ocean can stunt the growth of a certain bacteria responsible for pumping the atmosphere full of oxygen, according to a new study.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists discovered a bacterial gene that makes them resistant to last-resort antibiotics. They hope it will help doctors screen for superbugs.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers discover that antiretroviral therapy (ART) completely eliminates gay men's risk of HIV transmission through sex.
Treatments

By Kristin Houser

In a medical first, doctors saved a stabbing victim's life by performing open-heart surgery in the street because he wouldn't have survived to the hospital.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

A plant geneticist at the University of Northern Colorado found that the DNA of marijuana U.S. researchers are using for research looked way more like hemp.
Medical

By Victor Tangermann

A father and son team was just charged with fraud and concealing a crime for their six-year black market operation where they sold human body parts.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

A new therapy that involves injecting tumors with two immune stimulants essentially transforms the growths into "cancer vaccine factories."
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

A new study on cancer detection shows that dogs can sniff out the disease in blood with an extremely high degree of accuracy.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Scientists say they've devised antibodies that block a specific gene related to brain aging — causing old mice to regain lost cognitive abilities.
Treatments

By Jon Christian

A new HIV immunotherapy developed by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh not only kicks latent HIV cells out of hiding, but also kills them.
Viruses

By Kristin Houser

A new genetic trick allowed researchers to use bacteria to manufacture super-strong spider silk faster than spiders do themselves.
Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

A German pharma company patented a process in which genetically modified tequila bacterium produce a range of cannabinoids by just feeding on sugar.
Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

Many of today's medical implants communicate via Bluetooth, which makes them vulnerable to hacking, but a new system could change that.
Medical

By Kristin Houser

Bill Gates believes cancer vaccines are a breakthrough technology poise to change the world, according to a piece he penned for MIT Technology Review.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

When an Arizona hospital went bankrupt, its servers full of people's medical records went offline. Now its patients need access to get medical care.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

Yerba santa, a plant dubbed the "holy herb" by native California tribes, could have a previously unknown medical use as an Alzheimer's treatment.
Treatments

By Kristin Houser

Scientists developed a piece of machine learning software that can predict the prognosis of ovarian cancer and at a higher accuracy.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

A new cancer drug uses an antibody to get inside tumor cells so it can attack from within, similarly to the Greek army in the Trojan Horse story.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Scientists turned skin cells into immune cells
Cancer

By Jacob Banas

Researchers have discovered what they're calling the cancer "cell of origin," a type of stem cell that leads to the growth of all cancers.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Israeli pharmaceutical company Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies claims it is working on a cancer cure that will be ready within a year.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at the University of Arizona found that astronauts who spent more than six months in space had fewer cells capable of fighting off leukemia.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs containing two human proteins that can fight cancer and other diseases.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Board certified genetic counselor Rachelle Chambers says that 23andMe's new test for colon cancer could do some good, but professionals would do better.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the University of Basel have found a way to transform cancer cells into fat using two FDA-approved drugs.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Electricity producing bacteria may one day play a big roll in producing the Earths energy
Bacteria

By Jacob Banas

Researchers discover that Oregon blue clay has antibacterial properties that even treatment-resistant bacterias can't withstand.
Bacteria

By Kristin Houser

A cancer-detecting breathalyzer is ready for clinical trials, and if it works as hoped, it could usher in a new era in cancer screening.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Burgers full of beef and bacon are facing a new threat from cancer causing chemicals.
Cancer

By Jacob Banas

A new cancer treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer is scheduled to start human trials in 2019.
Cancer

By Jon Christian

A new virtual reality simulation built by Cambridge University scientists gives a high-resolution detail view into the cells of a breast cancer tumor.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

New medical research shows how to reprogram a mature blood cell into a new kind of stem cell that cell can grow into a neuron and multiply indefinitely.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A dementia reversal treatment is moving from animal testing to human safety trials thanks to $10 million in funding from the Australian government.
Treatments

By Kristin Houser

Biologists Engineered An Assassin Virus to Kill Bacteria on Command
Bacteria

By Kristin Houser

A New Spray Gel Helps Kill Tumors Left Over From Cancer Surgery
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

The first lab-grown placenta has remained stable for a year. Doctors hope it can better explain and help prevent first-trimester pregnancy complications.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon continues to invest in healthcare and has begun selling software which analyzes patient medical records for hospitals and their physicians.
Medical

By Jacob Banas