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Pill Robots: The Future of Non-Invasive Surgery [INFOGRAPHIC]

In the U.S. alone, the incidence of children swallowing dangerous "button batteries" is on the rise. But a new technology involving ingestible "pill robots" may be the solution to these...

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ReWalk: Proof That Exoskeletons Are Changing Lives

A Revolutionary Technology On April 2, Adam Gorlitsky intends to participate in the annual Cooper River Bridge Run, an elite, 10-kilometer foot race in Charleston, South Carolina. Which is not, in...

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Scientists 3D Print Cartilage Using an “ink” Composed of Human Cells

A Revolution in Cosmetic Surgery At a meeting today of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a team of researchers at Sweden’s Wallenberg Wood Science Center noted that they have devised a means of 3D...

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New Biosensor Rapidly Detects Multiple Viruses, and is 80% Cheaper Than...

Fast, Inexpensive Virus Detection Scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have discovered a new, extremely sensitive and effective technique for detecting viruses. Their new...

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Closer to a Cure: New Compound Hinders Drug Resistance In Cancer Cells

Overcoming Resistance While a variety of cancer therapies and treatments exist, excluding those currently being researched or in clinical trials, a majority of these fail to prevent patient deaths due...

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New Stem Cell Innovation Could Lead to Therapy for Parkinson’s and Multiple...

“A Major Innovation” Researchers from Rutgers and Stanford university have devised an ingenious new technology that may lead to new treatments for debilitating brain and neurological disorders, such as...

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Nipping Cancer in the Bud—New Supersensitive Biosensor Makes It Happen

Early Warning System Using “nanostructured metamaterials,” a team at Case Western Reserve University has created an optical sensor for cancer detection that is 1 million times more sensitive than...

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Meet the Pill That Lights up Cancerous Tumors

A New Front in the Cancer War For cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, the ability to detect whether the treatment is effective for a specific patient is essential to not only their quality of life...

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Stem Cell Technique Could Regenerate Any Human Tissue Damaged By Aging or...

Stem Cell Clayface While stem cells have worked wonders in medicinal research, showing signs of curing everything from spinal cord injuries to blindness, they’ve always had their shortcomings. But one...

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A New Weapon in the War Against Cancer—Light Disrupts Cell Signals

Light and Electric Signals Years of research from Tufts University has finally yielded wonderful results: A method of stopping and reversing cancer growth by using light to manipulate electric signals...

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Ingestible Sensor Can Monitor Vital Signs From Inside Your Gut

Medical Monitoring in a Pill Typical disease detection involves many tests—taking samples of blood, saliva, urine, and stool; inserting unpleasant-looking instruments into various places in one’s body;...

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Researchers Create Electronics That Can Dissolve in Your Brain

Noninvasive Implants Imagine brain implants that completely dissolve and fade away after a period of time. That’s just what a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed....

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Sound-Based Tech Lets Us Sorts Cells Without Altering Them

Microfluidic devices are devices that can be used to analyze cells based on size, deformability, and electrical properties, among other characteristics.  A team from MIT has found another method of...

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Newest Discovery Moves Us One Step Closer To Making Synthetic Organisms With...

Southpaw DNA and Righty Amino Acids One of the great mysteries of life concerns what is called life’s “chirality”—that is, its “handedness.” Just like you and I, the very macromolecules that make up...

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Scientists Created Smart Contacts That Can Monitor and Treat Diabetes

An Eye On Health Researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea (POSTECH) found a new way to monitor diabetes and deliver medication…through a smart contact lens-eyeglass...

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Scientists Find a Protein That Blocks Zika Replication

Recently, reports came out regarding new information about Zika. But to be clear, a cure has not been found, and there is no guarantee that that this new research will allow us to stop the disease;...

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WiSE Implant Keeps Your Heart Beating—and It’s Only the Size of a Grain of Rice

A WiSE Choice Though an average of 150,000 patients receive cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) implants each year, in order to keep their heart chambers pumping in synchrony, that still leaves...

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Physicists Confirm There’s a Second Layer of Information Hidden in Our DNA

We all learned in high school how Watson and Crick pieced together the findings of many scientists to come up with a model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Information in DNA is stored as code sequences...

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A “Self-Destruct” Switch for Cancer? New Method Turns Cancer Cells Against...

Self-Destruct Hack A professor at the biology department of the University of Texas in San Antonio has developed a non-invasive method that can wipe out up to an estimated 95% of tumor cells in...

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Pill Robots: The Future of Non-Invasive Surgery [INFOGRAPHIC]

In the U.S. alone, the incidence of children swallowing dangerous "button batteries" is on the rise. But a new technology involving ingestible "pill robots" may be the solution to these...

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