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As the technology becomes cheaper and more common, surgeons may find themselves routinely practicing for an operation with 3D-printed organs.

Prepping for Surgery With 3D-Printed Organs May Become Commonplace

By Dan Robitzski

A new system could enable smart speakers to listen in for signs of a heart attack and immediately call for medical assistance.

Health & Medicine

Future Smart Speakers Could Call 911 if They Hear a Heart Attack

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard geneticist George Church explains why he built a database of protective and harmful gene variations, and predicts how it could improve medicine.

Prosthetics and Devices

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.

This Harvard Prof Is Listing Genes That Could Make You Superhuman

By Dan Robitzski

A new law in Alabama will require that inmaes convicted of sexual crimes against a minor seeking parole will need to be chemically castrated.

Health & Medicine

New Law: Alabama Will Chemically Castrate Pedophiles

By Dan Robitzski

A new biomedical technique lets scientists gene-hack an animal with CRISPR in vivo instead of having to remove and re-inject their cells.

Health & Medicine

Harvard Just Gene-Hacked Stem Cells Inside a Living Organism

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. lawmakers proposed an amendment to federal patent law that would let biotech and pharma companies patent human genes.

New Law Would Let Corporations Patent Human Genes

By Dan Robitzski

A new study figured out how young blood seems to revitalize older neurons. Two proteins from newborn mouse blood revitalized lab-grown human neurons.

Health & Medicine

Yeah, Young Blood Transfusions Do Seem to Fight Aging

By Dan Robitzski

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

Those Gene-Hacked Babies May Be Doomed to Die Young

By Dan Robitzski

As they travel in the body, viruses like herpes can soak up proteins that they use to produce the amyloid plaques linked to Alzheimer's symptoms.

Health & Medicine

New Research: Herpes May Make You Get Alzheimer’s Earlier

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Gene-Hack Viruses to Hunt and Kill Super-Strong Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Prosthetics and Devices

Third Gene-Hacked Baby’s Impending Birth Has Scientists Scrambling

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists now know that subjecting people to microgravity affects eyesight and perception. A new study will attempt to uncover the extent of the effects.

A Zero-G Jungle Gym Will Test How Microgravity Affects the Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Optimistic scientists want to begin testing so-called "artificial wombs" that could house a developing fetus and embryo through birth.

Health & Medicine

Scientists: We’ll Grow Babies in Artificial Wombs “In a Decade”

By Dan Robitzski

By targeting "zombified" senescent cells that clog the brain, doctors think they may be able to prevent age-related medical conditions.

Health & Medicine

Scientists: Drugs That Kill “Zombie Cells” Could Prevent Aging

By Dan Robitzski

Bank of America analysts argue that it would be wise to invest in longevity companies that are working to extend the human lifespan and erase disease.

Health & Medicine

Major Bank: The Immortality Industry Is the Next Hot Investment

By Dan Robitzski

Denver became the first city in the US to decriminalize psilocybin, a compound with hallucinogenic properties that occurs in some "magic mushrooms."

Denver Becomes First U.S. City to Decriminalize “Magic Mushrooms”

By Jon Christian

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

Sneaky Bacteria Can Swap Genes, Making Them Immune to Antibiotics

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that extended trips to space are causing astronauts' brains to fill with excess fluid and swell, potentially damaging their eyesight.

Bad News, NASA: Astronauts’ Brains Are Filling With Liquid

By Dan Robitzski

European scientists recently tested an unfathomably powerful laser. Next year, they expect to use it to develop new cancer treatments and study supernovas.

The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

In order to fight the spread of anti-vaxxer misinformation, Instagram is developing a pop-up that will appear next to dangerous medical claims.

Health & Medicine

Instagram May Combat Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation With Pop-up Ads

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out how to 3D print a functional "lung" made of inflatable air sacs that can oxygenate blood just like a real lung.

New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing”

By Dan Robitzski

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 First: Doctor Performs Open Heart Surgery in the Street

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that two drugs may improve communication skills in people with autism. But the seemingly-conflicting results mean more research is needed.

Neuroscience and Brain

Controversial Research: Two Drugs May Reduce Autism Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just issued new black box warnings, the most severe that it can, against sleeping pills' dangerous sleep walking side effects.

FDA: Ambien Is Making People Kill Themselves While Asleep

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse the developmental disorder Angelman syndrome, but the treatment would involve gene-hacking fetal brains.

Injecting Fetal Brains With CRISPR Could Cure Genetic Conditions

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Plan to 3D Print Muscular Tissue on the Space Station

Scientists Plan to 3D Print Muscular Tissue on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Surgeons just used the first autonomous surgery robot, a self-guiding catheter that could navigate its way through a pig's heart.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface device can translate the neural signals controlling someone's vocal tract into full sentences of audible speech.

Health & Medicine

Amazing Device Turns Thoughts Into Audible Sentences

By Dan Robitzski

Moleculin Biotech, a company that conducts clinical research for cancer treatments, found a way to speed up the process by moving its research to Poland.

Health & Medicine

Expensive US Drug Trials Are Pushing Pharma Research Overseas

By Dan Robitzski

Using a powerful supercomputer, scientists simulated every single one of the billion atoms found in a human gene. It may help them crack genetic disease.

Scientists Simulated Every Single Atom of a Single Gene

By Dan Robitzski

Using CRISPR gene editing tools, MIT scientists turned a human cell into a tiny computer that could be used to detect diseases and churn out treatments.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Used CRISPR to Turn a Cell Into a Biological Computer

By Dan Robitzski

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

Prosthetics and Devices

Stanford Declines to Punish Faculty For CRISPR Babies

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists developed a new type of gene-hacking technology that acts like a DNA "shredder." It could be used to cure diseases like herpes.

Health & Medicine

New CRISPR Tech Could Cure Herpes

By Dan Robitzski

A new study shows that fecal transplants of healthy gut flora can help reduce the more severe symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Health & Medicine

Fecal Transplants Reduce Symptoms of Autism Long Term

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Family Caught Selling Diseased Body Parts to Medical Centers

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just published the full results of its extensive study into how space travel altered astronaut Scott Kelly's health and gene expression.

NASA: Genetic Changes Caused by Space Travel Are Temporary

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of quantum material can directly measure neural activity and translate it into electrical signals for a computer.

Scientists Say New Quantum Material Could “‘Download’ Your Brain”

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey figured out how many bacteria and fungi are on the International Space Station. In some places, there are a billion cells per square meter.

International Space Station

The International Space Station is Teeming With Germs

By Dan Robitzski

The Stentrode, the first neural implant that doesn't require open surgery, is poised to begin clinical trials to help paralyzed people communicate.

This Neural Implant Accesses Your Brain Through the Jugular Vein

By Dan Robitzski

A new drug, currently in development, could eventually give rise to safe and effective birth control for both men and women.

Health & Medicine

New Birth Control Drug Would Work for Men and Women

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found the a single dose of MDMA can help adult mice re-learn social behavior. They hope it can help people with PTSD.

MDMA Can “Reopen” a Part of the Brain That Closes After Puberty

By Dan Robitzski

For the past eight years, IBM's Watson AI division has boasted about plans to revolutionize healthcare. Now, doctors are getting tired of waiting.

Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Are Losing Faith in IBM Watson’s AI Doctor

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of cutting a person open, future surgeries could be done by shocking cartilage until it's malleable and reshaping it with molds.

New Technique Alters Your Facial Appearance Without Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

A pocket of researchers in Silicon Valley believe that people currently living can survive for 1,000 years. But others in the field remain skeptics.

Health & Medicine

A Scientist Thinks Someone Alive Today Will Live to be 1,000

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a handheld device that uses CRISPR genetic tools and graphene transistors to screen for the mutations behind muscular dystrophy.

Health & Medicine

Handheld CRISPR Device Diagnoses Genetic Disease in 15 Minutes

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization called for a public registry for all human gene-editing research to prevent any more debacles like that caused by He Jiankui

United Nations Calls for Registry of Human Gene-Editing Projects

By Dan Robitzski

In a new op-ed for scientific american, scientists argue that anti-vaxxers are such a danger to society that they shouldn't be allowed near others.

Health & Medicine

Scientists: Anti-Vaxxers Are the Moral Equivalent of Drunk Drivers

By Dan Robitzski

Indian police just caught a man who was smuggling a live, human embryo into the country from Malaysia, where fertility treatments are more expensive.

Health & Medicine

A Smuggler Just Got Caught With a Live Human Embryo in His Luggage

By Dan Robitzski

With CRISPR gene editing, scientists hope to be able to create human-pig hybrids that will let us grow and harvest life-saving human organs.

Health & Medicine

This Guy Is Trying to Grow Organs in Pig-Human Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates issued a grave warning Monday, comparing advanced artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Compares Artificial Intelligence to Nuclear Weapons

By Jon Christian

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb says that anti-vaxxers are putting the country at risk of facing epidemics of dangerous, preventable diseases.

Health & Medicine

FDA Head: Anti-Vaxxers Could Soon Cause an Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

States Are Approving Cannabis to Fight Opioid Addiction

Health & Medicine

States Are Approving Cannabis to Fight Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

That's why doctors are excited about a new experimental treatment that could provide broad protection against many strains of the flu.

Health & Medicine

A New Drug Might, Possibly, Have Cured the Flu

By Jon Christian

A California family is outraged that a doctor told their relative he was going to die imminently — via a telepresence robot.

Doctor Tells Man He’s Going to Die via Telepresence Robot

By Jon Christian

European scientists say that a bone marrow transplant has permanently cured a patient's infection with HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Say They’ve Permanently Cured a Patient’s HIV

By Jon Christian

For the first time outside of China, a clinic is using CRISPR gene editing techniques to treat someone in a clinical trial.

Health & Medicine

Western Biotech Firm Treats First Patient With CRISPR

By Dan Robitzski

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.

Facebook Mods Are so Traumatized They’re Getting High at Work

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Hospital Goes Out of Business, Pulls Medical Records Offline

By Dan Robitzski

When news broke of He Jiankui's infamous gene editing research, an academic journal published his ethical guidelines. Now the article has been retracted.

Journal Retracts Ethics Article by Doctor Who Gene Edited Babies

By Dan Robitzski

New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging

Health & Medicine

New Research: Bone Marrow Transplants Might Prevent Aging

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the specific genetic edits performed on now-living humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui could have broader-than-expected impacts.

Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Babies “Likely” Boosted Their Brainpower

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy tested on mice can treat a specific kind of congenital deafness by repairing a faulty inner-ear protein.

Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice

By Dan Robitzski