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The Newly-Passed Right To Try Act Is Redundant And Risky

Health & Medicine

The Newly-Passed Right To Try Act Is Redundant And Risky

By Dan Robitzski

We’ve Reached A New Level In Bionics: Artificial Limbs We Forget Are Artificial

Neuroscience and Brain

We’ve Reached A New Level In Bionics: Artificial Limbs We Forget Are Artificial

By Dan Robitzski

Here’s What Ambien Can Actually Do To You

Health & Medicine

Here’s What Ambien Can Actually Do To You

By Dan Robitzski

New Jelly-Like Neural Implant Eliminates the Need to Drill Through the Brain

New Jelly-Like Neural Implant Eliminates the Need to Drill Through the Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Quantum Dots Synthesized From Tea Leaves Could Be The Future Of Nanomedicine

RX and Medicine

Quantum Dots Synthesized From Tea Leaves Could Be The Future Of Nanomedicine

By Dan Robitzski

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

By Dan Robitzski

Scott Pruitt’s EPA Prevented A Major Water Pollution Study From Being Published

Scott Pruitt’s EPA Prevented A Major Water Pollution Study From Being Published

By Dan Robitzski

Cheap Drug Breathalyzers Are On The Way, If We Can Figure Out How To Use Them

Cheap Drug Breathalyzers Are On The Way, If We Can Figure Out How To Use Them

By Dan Robitzski

AI Created Complete 3D Models Of Cells So Doctors See How Diseases Change Them

AI Created Complete 3D Models Of Cells So Doctors See How Diseases Change Them

By Dan Robitzski

To Help The Body Fight Chronic Disease, Scientists Learn To Decode Brain Signals

To Help The Body Fight Chronic Disease, Scientists Learn To Decode Brain Signals

By Dan Robitzski

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

A Great Way To Prevent Opioid Deaths: Overriding Patents On Anti-Overdose Drug

A Great Way To Prevent Opioid Deaths: Overriding Patents On Anti-Overdose Drug

By Dan Robitzski

Noise-Cancelling Windows Are Perfect For People Already Rich Enough To Find Quiet in the City

Noise-Cancelling Windows Are Perfect For People Already Rich Enough To Find Quiet in the City

By Dan Robitzski

Forcing Elite Female Athletes To Medicate Isn’t The Way To Make Sports More Equal

Forcing Elite Female Athletes To Medicate Isn’t The Way To Make Sports More Equal

By Dan Robitzski

Yes, Autism Rates Are Rising. No, That Doesn’t Mean More People Have Autism

Yes, Autism Rates Are Rising. No, That Doesn’t Mean More People Have Autism

By Dan Robitzski

Plan to Create a Genetic Rolodex of Life on Earth Could Save Lives

Plan to Create a Genetic Rolodex of Life on Earth Could Save Lives

By Kristin Houser

Penis Transplant Is Latest Surgery Helping People Feel Like Themselves

Penis Transplant Is Latest Surgery Helping People Feel Like Themselves

By Dan Robitzski

There May Soon Be A New Vaccine To Combat Addiction To Bath Salts

There May Soon Be A New Vaccine To Combat Addiction To Bath Salts

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Who Stick Needles in Brains Curious About What Needles Do to Brains

Scientists Who Stick Needles in Brains Curious About What Needles Do to Brains

By Dan Robitzski

A Real Pick-Me-Up: Viagra Could Become The Next Cancer Drug

A Real Pick-Me-Up: Viagra Could Become The Next Cancer Drug

By Dan Robitzski

Antidepressants Don’t Always Work. Now Doctors Can Peer Into The Brain To Get Patients The Right One

Antidepressants Don’t Always Work. Now Doctors Can Peer Into The Brain To Get Patients The Right One

By Dan Robitzski

The Government Wants To Share Your Health Data. That’s Not A Terrible Idea.

Health & Medicine

The Government Wants To Share Your Health Data. That’s Not A Terrible Idea.

Wandering Gut Bacteria Could Be Behind Conditions Like Lupus

Wandering Gut Bacteria Could Be Behind Conditions Like Lupus

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Health & Medicine

A Stem Cell Patch Could Heal Hearts Damaged By Cardiac Arrest

New Sensor Lets You Monitor Blood Pressure With Your Smartphone

Health & Medicine

New Sensor Lets You Monitor Blood Pressure With Your Smartphone

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Health & Medicine

“Genetic Report Cards” Will Be the Future of Predicting Disease Risk

Here’s How Future Astronauts Could Survive the Radiation of Space

Here’s How Future Astronauts Could Survive the Radiation of Space

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Study Explains “Fountain of Youth” Effect of Young Blood on Old Mice

By Chelsea Gohd

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Health & Medicine

We’re Getting Closer to Vaccines to Combat Drug Addiction

Machine Learning Could Make Manufacturing New Medicines Easier for Synthetic Chemists

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Could Make Manufacturing New Medicines Easier for Synthetic Chemists

“Intestine-Chip” Could Help Patients With Diseases Like Crohn’s

Health & Medicine

“Intestine-Chip” Could Help Patients With Diseases Like Crohn’s

By Chelsea Gohd

Researchers Claim Special Form of UV Light Can Safely Kill Flu Viruses

Researchers Claim Special Form of UV Light Can Safely Kill Flu Viruses

By Chelsea Gohd

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Health & Medicine

A New Test Can Read Your Future Child’s Genome While They’re Still in the Womb

Can a Brain Zap Really Boost Your Memory?

Can a Brain Zap Really Boost Your Memory?

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Health & Medicine

Will You Get Alzheimer’s 30 Years from Now? The Answer Is in Your Blood

By Chelsea Gohd

Artificial Intelligence Can Support Killer Viruses in the War Against Superbugs

Artificial Intelligence Can Support Killer Viruses in the War Against Superbugs

Your Future Doctor May Not be Human. This Is the Rise of AI in Medicine.

RX and Medicine

Your Future Doctor May Not be Human. This Is the Rise of AI in Medicine.

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Prosthetics and Devices

The FDA Just Approved a Robotic Exoskeleton That Augments Your Strength

By Chelsea Gohd

A Needle the Size of a Human Hair Makes Brain Injections Possible

A Needle the Size of a Human Hair Makes Brain Injections Possible

By Chelsea Gohd

Virtual Reality

Doctors Can Now Use Augmented Reality to Peek Under a Patient’s Skin

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Neuroscience and Brain

If You Had a Human Head Transplant, Would You Still Be You?

Surgeons in France Just Performed the First-Ever Double Face Transplant

Health & Medicine

Surgeons in France Just Performed the First-Ever Double Face Transplant

By Chelsea Gohd

The FDA Approved an Algorithm That Predicts Death

Health & Medicine

The FDA Approved an Algorithm That Predicts Death

By Patrick Caughill

Competition Between Pathogens Could Help Tackle Drug Resistance

Competition Between Pathogens Could Help Tackle Drug Resistance

The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018

Health & Medicine

The First CRISPR Clinical Trial Could Begin in 2018

By Chelsea Gohd

Revolutionary Tech Lets Us See Inside a Beating Heart

Health & Medicine

Revolutionary Tech Lets Us See Inside a Beating Heart

Thanks to a New Study, We May Be Able to Stop HIV in Its Tracks

Health & Medicine

Thanks to a New Study, We May Be Able to Stop HIV in Its Tracks

Breakthrough Cancer Test Identifies Which of 15 Drugs Most Likely to Eradicate Tumors

Breakthrough Cancer Test Identifies Which of 15 Drugs Most Likely to Eradicate Tumors

By Christianna Reedy

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Scientists Use CRISPR to Turn E.Coli Bacteria into a Microscopic Tape Recorder

Sight Unseen: Advanced Imaging Will Solve the Greatest Mysteries of the Human Body

Neuroscience and Brain

Sight Unseen: Advanced Imaging Will Solve the Greatest Mysteries of the Human Body

This Drug Puts A $750,000 “Price Tag On Life”

Health & Medicine

This Drug Puts A $750,000 “Price Tag On Life”

By Kaiser Health News

New Study Puts Us One Step Closer to Being Able to Starve Cancer Cells

New Study Puts Us One Step Closer to Being Able to Starve Cancer Cells

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Scientists Have Successfully Reversed Advanced Heart Failure in Mice

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Health & Medicine

A New Blood Test Lets Doctors Know Instantly If You’ve Had a Heart Attack

23andMe is Raising $200 Million to Make Drugs From Your DNA

23andMe is Raising $200 Million to Make Drugs From Your DNA

Scientists Discovered a Protein that Could Lead to a Treatment for Obesity

Scientists Discovered a Protein that Could Lead to a Treatment for Obesity

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Health & Medicine

Researchers Have Found a Molecule That Can Fight the Effects of Aging

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Health & Medicine

For The First Time Ever, A Woman in China Was Cryogenically Frozen

By Chelsea Gohd

When Will We Have a Cure for All Forms of Cancer?

When Will We Have a Cure for All Forms of Cancer?

Plants Have Been “Hijacked” to Create a Vaccine — And it Could Eradicate Polio

Health & Medicine

Plants Have Been “Hijacked” to Create a Vaccine — And it Could Eradicate Polio

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Health & Medicine

New Study Reveals Stem Cells from Young Hearts May Help Reverse the Aging Process

Alternative Cancer Treatments Come With Increased Chances of Death

Alternative Cancer Treatments Come With Increased Chances of Death

Scientists Reversed Glaucoma in Mice With the Help of a Single Gene

Health & Medicine

Scientists Reversed Glaucoma in Mice With the Help of a Single Gene

By Christina Galbraith

We Might Be Closer to a Lab Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Health & Medicine

We Might Be Closer to a Lab Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome