Future flexible lung belts could harness energy from the rhythm of your breathing, powering pacemakers or other implantable medical devices.
Nanotechnologists have found a way to
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Some of the greatest discoveries in science have been total accidents - Alexander Fleming's use of penicillin, Wilson and Penzias' discovery of the cosmic microwave background, etc. Today, scientists announced they've once again unintentionally made a monumental discovery:
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Talk about upping your shutter speed. A new X-ray laser method is able to image a single mimivirus (that's a large virus, sure, but it's still
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For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence of a human DNA fragment in the genome of bacteria, shedding light on why this particular bug is so adept at surviving
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In Japan, robot-led weddings, robot factory workers and even squeaky robot pets
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Medical detectives National Institutes of Health have just cracked their first case wide open, a result they hope to repeat with a slew of other uncharacterized illnesses and conditions. The Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP), a sleuthing agency set up within the NIH
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The Journal of Cosmology recently published a special issue concerning the requisites for and perils inherent in a manned mission to Mars, which appropriately touched upon that taboo topic that NASA never talks about: sex in space. But while it might seem like a natural
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The British scientist responsible for starting the autism-MMR vaccine hoax not only falsified his data, but sought to profit from it, according to a report published Tuesday in the British Medical
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Dr. Rat will sniff you now
A 10-pound rat wouldn't normally evoke feelings of appreciation, but perhaps it should - apparently it can save lives by sniffing out tuberculosis. Rat disease
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Pig cells wrapped in seaweed will be implanted into diabetes patients
Russian authorities have approved the first xenotransplantation treatment - the implanting
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"Independent mobility is crucial in the development of typical infants," says the research
A baby transporter for mobility-impaired children would ensure confidence, independence and proper cognitive development, researchers say. So they recommend babies start driving
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In 2002, Matthew Rosen won a NASA grant to study how gravity affects the lungs. He soon found out what lung specialists already know: An MRI scanner reveals how well a lung moves air, but it only works when the patient is lying on his back. What Rosen really wanted to
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In Japan, robot-led weddings, robot factory workers and even squeaky robot pets
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Researchers in Germany have created bandages that turn purple at the first sign of infection.
A new wound dressing, developed at the Fraunhofer Research Institution
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Taking cues from slime molds, ants, and living biological cells, a team of University of Pittsburgh researchers has designed a system of artificial cells that can communicate with one another and cooperate to carry out tasks. The computer models they've devised could
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In a potential breakthrough in the prevention of AIDS, researchers are reporting today that a vaginal gel containing an existing AIDS drug can cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.
The women involved in the study used it only
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Since last April, 19 cancer patients whose liver tumours hadn't responded to chemotherapy have taken an experimental drug. Within weeks of the first dose, it appeared to work, by preventing tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The results are preliminary
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If a stem cell treatment replaced the most common cosmetic surgery procedure, it could pave the way for much wider medical use of the potent little cells
The objections
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Human pluripotent stem cells - the kind that can become any kind of specialized cell and therefore be used to treat pretty much any kind of cellular damage - hold seemingly limitless promise if only we could manipulate them in useful quantities. Now, researchers at
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Good morning, readers. Settled in, ready to take on the day? Great, we hope you have a good one. Also, FYI, a new mutation that makes bacteria resistant to pretty much every antibiotic known to man
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A collaboration between U.S. and South Korean researchers has produced what is thought to be the world's smallest man-made pump, merely the size of a red blood corpuscle. More impressive still is their means of powering
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Neural networks -- collections of artificial neurons or nodes set up to behave like the neurons in the brain -- can be trained to carry out a variety of tasks, often having something to do with pattern or sequence recognition. As such, they have shown great promise in
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A team of Australian chemistry students have strengthened the chemical bonds of insulin to make it stable even at warm temperatures -- a breakthrough that could simplify diabetes management. The finding could shed light on how insulin works, and eventually lead to insulin
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Since last April, 19 cancer patients whose liver tumours hadn't responded to chemotherapy have taken an experimental drug. Within weeks of the first dose, it appeared to work, by preventing tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The results are preliminary
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The transgenic animals are designed to help stamp out dengue fever in the Cayman Islands
An Oxford-based research firm has announced the results of a release of genetically modified male mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands, the first experiment with GM mosquitoes to take
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A group of scientists from the University of California-San Francisco is worried that a new generation of airport security scanners could present a cancer risk, NPR reports. But skeptics say people
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Scientists in Spain have cloned a fighting bull for the first time, saying they hoped he would be as fierce as his father. The feat could mean that a fresh version of the same animal would be able to fight again and again (and be killed again and again). The 53-pound
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So-called keyhole surgery techniques have come a long way in recent decades, but a lack of dexterity and freedom of movement means sometimes surgeons can't get the job done, and that means they have to go in the old fashioned way: Straight through the breastbone. But
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Feeling a bit obsessive-compulsive? New research suggests maybe it's not all in your head after all. More likely, researchers say, it's in your bones. A Nobel laureate at the University of Utah, US, claims he has cured an OCD-like behavior in mice by giving them bone
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People get tattoos for all kinds of reason, such as conveying their appreciation for Japanese calligraphy or to let others at the gym know their biceps are rugged like barbed wire. But a team of MIT researchers have found a higher calling for tattoo tech: using a nanoparticle
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