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Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble
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Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

By Dan Robitzski

A small UK-based DNA-testing company called DnaNudge has come up with a toaster-sized machine that can detect COVID-19 in just 90 minutes.
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Machine Detects COVID-19 in 90 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

An app called Sonde One claims to spot signs of respiratory disease just by analyzing your voice. But it's careful to clarify that it can't really diagnose.
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This App Claims It Can Hear COVID-19 in Your Voice

By Dan Robitzski

The same company that announced a partnership with KFC to create the world's first 3D printed chicken nugget successfully printed human cells in space.
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The Same Company 3D Printing KFC’s Meat Nuggets Is Printing Human Tissue in Space As Well

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of Bristol, UK,  built a set of robot jaws that can chomp on medicated chewing gum just like a human.
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Scientists Build Terminator-Style Robot Jaws to Chew Drug-Laced Gum

By Victor Tangermann

Healthcare workers in the US are relying on sophisticated robotic seals to help their COVID-19 patients ward off loneliness.
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Adorable Robot Seals Could Help COVID Patients Fight Loneliness

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Swiss researchers have created a transparent surgical face mask, intended for essential workers, that no longer hide people's faces.
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These Transparent Medical Face Masks Won’t Fog Up

By Victor Tangermann

A smart ring can warn users that they've caught the coronavirus up to three days before they show symptoms, potentially keeping them from infecting others.
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Wearable Claims to Spot COVID Three Days Before Symptoms Appear

By Dan Robitzski

Disturbing-Looking Face Mask Has “Pac-Man”-Style Mouth Hole
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Disturbing-Looking Face Mask Has “Pac-Man”-Style Mouth Hole

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago have developed a skin-colored stick-on sensor that can track COVID-19 symptoms.
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This Stick-On Sensor Can Detect and Track COVID-19 Symptoms

By Victor Tangermann

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the "first test for patient at-home sample collection" for COVID-19.
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First COVID-19 At-Home Test Kit Authorized by FDA

By Victor Tangermann

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.
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Apple and Google to Launch App for Tracking the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

An ominous scoop by The Courier-Journal, a local paper in Kentucky: judges in the state are ordering coronavirus patients to isolate — a demand they're enforcing by making them wear ankle monitors, as if they were under house arrest.
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Kentucky Is Forcing Coronavirus Patients to Wear Ankle Monitors

By Jon Christian

Despite a growing DIY army's intentions, the simple fact is that home-sown cloth masks are close to useless in protecting against the coronavirus.
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DIY Face Masks Are Basically Useless Against the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

An italian company has come up with a 3D printed adapter that could turn a snorkeling mask into a C-PAP mask for oxygen therapy.
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This 3D-Printed Adapter Turns Snorkeling Mask Into a Ventilator

By Victor Tangermann

The Rich Are Trying to Buy Their Own Ventilators, in Case Everything Collapses
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The Rich Are Trying to Buy Their Own Ventilators, in Case Everything Collapses

By Jon Christian

Juul is pitching a Bluetooth-enabled vape that won't let you puff until you've connected it to an app and uploaded a government-issued ID.
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Juul Wants to Age-Lock Its Vapes

By Jon Christian

These Unsettling Medical Masks Look Like Human Faces
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These Unsettling Medical Masks Look Like Human Faces

By Victor Tangermann

This German a way to hack his prosthetic arm so that it could control electronic musical instruments.
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This Guy Hacked His Prosthetic Arm to Control Musical Instruments

By Jon Christian

Scientists have plans to battle cocaine addictions with a promising new tool: Using gene therapy to make cocaine less addictive.
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Scientists Propose Gene Hack to Make Cocaine Less Fun

By Foster Kamer

A handheld device that "prints" sheets of artificial skin directly onto the wounds of burn victims is one step closer to actual use in burn clinics.
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Handheld Device “Prints” New Skin Directly Onto Wounds

By Kristin Houser

In the future, doctors could treat damaged nerves with a newly unveiled biodegradable "bridge" created by University of Pittsburgh researchers.
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Biodegradable “Bridge” Could Repair Damaged Nerves

By Kristin Houser

Silicon Valley startup Mojo Vision unveiled a working AR prototype of the Mojo Lens today, what it claims to be "the world’s first true smart contact lens."
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Startup Unveils Working Prototype of AR Contact Lens

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have developed an AI that can detect hyoglycaemic events — drops in blood sugar — in raw ECG data from a wearable.
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This AI Can Detect Low Blood Sugar From ECG Readings

By Victor Tangermann

When the Department of Veterans Affairs refused to pay for a disabled veteran's prosthetic legs, the company that provided the limbs came to repo them.
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Healthcare Company Repossesses Veteran’s Prosthetic Legs

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from MIT came up with an invisible ink that can be harmlessly embedded in the skin along with a vaccine to serve as a medical record.
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Invisible Ink “Tattoos” Could Be Used to ID Vaccinated Kids

By Victor Tangermann

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.
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Google Buys Fitbit, Promises Not to Use Health Data to Sell Ads

By Kristin Houser

Researchers are working on the next generation of bionic glasses that could give the blind back much more of their vision in the future.
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Scientists Let Blind “See” With Next-Gen Bionic Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers just secured funding to create a working prototype of an artificial womb, which could end one of the leading causes of infant deaths.
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Scientists Want to Grow Babies in Giant, Liquid-Filled Balloons

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an insulin pill that could deliver the protein directly into the small intestines of people with diabetes.
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Don’t Like Shots? Swallow This Pill Full of Microneedles Instead

By Kristin Houser

Transhumanist Winter Mraz has modified her body with a number of implants, including a pair of LEDs that light up under a magnet.
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This Transhumanist Implanted Magnet-Triggered LEDs Under Her Skin

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military might use injections of nanoparticles to give soliders night vision capabilities without the need for bulky goggles, says scientist.
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Scientist: US Soldiers Could Receive Night Vision Eye Injections

By Kristin Houser

A new flexible patch could reverse baldness by shocking people's scalps with electricity. On bald mice, it works better than Rogaine.
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Scientists Say This High Tech Baseball Cap Can Reverse Baldness

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from at MIT have invented a tiny robotic worm that could be steered through the tiny arteries in the human brain using a magnet.
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Creepy Robotic Worm Could Wriggle Through Your Brain Arteries

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers from private medical company Bivacor have been working on an artificial, bionic heart that can allow cardiac patients to stay alive.
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This Steampunk Bionic Heart Uses Maglev Tech to Pump Blood

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Harvard's Wyss Institute developed a pair of stride-enhancing, wearable robotic shorts to make walking easier.
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Scientists Built Robo-Shorts to Make Walking Easier

By Jacob Banas

This new tech can determine a person's blood pressure by analyzing the hemoglobin under their facial skin in a short selfie video.
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New Tech Analyzes Selfie Videos to Determine Your Blood Pressure

By Kristin Houser

Engineers built a robot tail called Arque that could help people balance, lift heavy loads, or at least make VR games more immersive.
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Amazing Robot Tail Helps You Balance

By Dan Robitzski

Fed up with the challenges of living with diabetes, a biohacker built himself an artificial pancreas to automatically manage his insulin pump.
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How This Engineer Hacked Together His Own “Artificial Pancreas”

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming used tech to give her autistic son the ability to read emotions, but what happens when everyone wants to be a cyborg?
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“Mad Scientist” Mom Turns Autistic Son Into a “Cyborg”

By Kristin Houser

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov says he's found five couples who want him to use CRISPR to ensure their offspring do not inherit their deafness.
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Five Couples Agree to CRISPR Their Babies to Avoid Deafness

By Kristin Houser

Science leaders tell STAT there's nothing they can do to stop a Russian scientist's plan to create more CRISPR babies from progressing.
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Science Leaders: We Can’t Stop Russian’s Plan for CRISPR Babies

By Kristin Houser

Harvard geneticist George Church explains why he built a database of protective and harmful gene variations, and predicts how it could improve medicine.
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George Church Told Us Why He’s Listing Superhuman Gene Hacks

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard geneticist George Church has assembled a database of genetic mutations that could give people superhuman-like capabilities or medical benefits.
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This Harvard Prof Is Listing Genes That Could Make You Superhuman

By Dan Robitzski

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov told Nature that he's planning to use CRISPR to edit more human embryos — and bring them to term — as soon as late 2019.
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Russian Biologist Pledges to Create More CRISPR-Edited Babies

By Jon Christian

"Brain Talker," a computer chip designed specifically for use in brain-computer interfaces, could help the devices finally reach the mainstream.
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China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.
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New Gene-Editing Method Could Lead To “Creation of a Super-Baby”

By Kristin Houser

Fertility clinics around the world are asking He Jiankui if he'd be willing t teach them how to use CRISPR to create designer babies.
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Sketchy Clinics Are Trying to Hire Doctor Who Gene-Edited Babies

By Jon Christian

The next gene-hacked human is due to be born next month, and scientists are trying to sort out what that means for the future of humanity.
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Third Gene-Hacked Baby’s Impending Birth Has Scientists Scrambling

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army has set aside millions to invest in robotic exoskeletons that will make soldiers faster, stronger, and more resilient.
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The Army Is Spending Millions on Powered Exoskeletons

By Dan Robitzski

Famed biohacker Josiah Zayner has been accused of practicing medicine without a license — despite only ever experimenting on himself.
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This DIY Biohacker Is Under Investigation

By Kristin Houser

A new Microsoft patent shows an Xbox controller with a live Braille display to help visually impaired gamers get the full experience of a game or live chat.
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Microsoft Patented an Xbox Controller With a Braille Display

By Dan Robitzski

Two geneticists are criticizing He Jiankui's use of CRISPR to edit human embryos on the grounds that it was an example of deeply flawed science.
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CRISPR Baby Experiment Meant to Prevent HIV Might Not Even Work

By Kristin Houser

A scientist who claims to have gene-edited babies made his first public appearance since the existence of the babies became public.
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Researcher Who Gene-Edited Babies Answers Critics: “I Feel Proud”

By Jon Christian

After conducting an internal investigation into three professors who knew about He Jiankui's CRISPR baby research, Stanford let its faculty off the hook.
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Stanford Declines to Punish Faculty For CRISPR Babies

By Dan Robitzski

The first human CRISPR trial in the U.S. has officially begun, with a UPenn team using the technology to treat two cancer patients.
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The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans

By Kristin Houser

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A Guy Got a QR Code Tattoo and Then Someone Broke the Link

By Dan Robitzski

A sensor the size of a watch battery could help track firefighters and those in dangerous working conditions.
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Self-Powered Sensor Helps Track Firefighters in Burning Buildings

By Jacob Banas

Documents list several Chinese government agencies as the funding sources for the CRISPR babies experiments conducted by He Jiankui.
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China May Have Helped Fund Gene-Hacked Babies Experiment

By Kristin Houser

Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly Into a Woman’s Nerves
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Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly Into a Woman’s Nerves

By Jon Christian

The new emojis added to the global roster include prosthetic arms and other inclusive representation for people with disabilities.
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Inclusive New Emoji Include Prosthetic Arms and Legs

By Jon Christian

A team from UC Berkeley has discovered that CasX could be a better CRISPR protein for human gene-editing than the commonly researched Cas9.
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Tiny New CRISPR Protein Could Make Human Gene-Hacking Less Risky

By Kristin Houser

Transfusion of blood from young donors are one of the latest anti-aging treatments on the market, but they might actually hurt people rather than help them.
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Expert: Anti-Aging Blood Transfusions May Do More Harm Than Good

By Kristin Houser

A do-it-yourself biohacker named Bryan Bishop says that he's working on technology to gene-hack designer babies. He says he has a customer lined up.
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Rogue Bitcoin-Funded Biohacker Wants to Gene-Hack Designer Babies

By Jon Christian