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Scientists Discovered a New Human Organ: The Interstitium
The nanobots block tumor blood supply and generate tumor tissue damage within 24 hours, while having no effect on healthy tissues (via ASU Biodesign Institute) You’d think with our massive research...
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Nanoparticles Grow Bone, Cartilage Tissue Without Harmful Side Effects
Stem cells (via PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay) Human stem cells—the biological jack of all trades—have revolutionized modern medicine, with their ability to transform into specialized cell types. But...
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At-Home CRISPR Test Helps Detect Disease
A mock-up of how the CRISPR diagnostic tool made by Mammoth Biosciences would work. Photo: Mammoth Biosciences Genome-editing superweapon CRISPR is typically confined to scientific labs. But a new...
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Scientists Keep Big Brain Alive Without the Body for 36 Hours
via pixabay.com/HypnoArt Holy Shit. Scientists report being able to keep a pig’s brain alive — outside the body — for a day and a half. I know I’m just kinda restating the headline, but that’s flat...
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Environmental Pressures Linked to Antibiotic Resistance
(via stevepb/Pixabay) Climate change is real, and it’s increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria. A team of epidemiologists from Boston Children’s Hospital discovered that higher local temperatures...
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The Human Body Keeps Ticking — Even After Death
The USDA will not regulate gene-edited plants (via typographyimages/Pixabay) Culturally, there is the idea that death is an immutable thing. When you’ve croaked, that’s it. But medical technology has...
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23andMe To Share Consumer DNA With Big Pharma’s GSK
DNA (via qimono/Pixabay) British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and personal genomics firm 23andMe inked a four-year deal to use human genetics as the basis for fighting disease. The...
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AI Learns to Create Drugs From Scratch
An artificial-intelligence approach could help bring new drugs to patients quicker (via Pexels/Pixabay) Artificial intelligence created at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has learned...
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Lab-Grown Retinas Reveal How Humans See Color
How do we see color? (via Skitterphoto/Pixabay) Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retinas in a dish to determine how color vision cells develop. Their work, published in the journal...
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Scorpion Venom Shuttles Drugs to the Brain
(via 41330/Pixabay) And you thought needles were scary: Researchers are using scorpion venom to transport drugs to the brain. The Peptides and Proteins lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine...
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Superglue-Style Hydrogel Could Help Eliminate Joint Pain
The hydrogel developed at EPFL (via École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Joint pain is extremely common, yet we still rely mostly on over-the-counter medications for temporary relief. A new...
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Baby Receives World’s First Drone-Delivered Vaccine
Jospeh Hing and Rebecca Olul introduce the children of Epi, Vanuatu, to drones (via UNICEF Pacific) One-month-old Joy Nowai on Tuesday became the world’s first child to be given a vaccine delivered by...
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Scientists Develop Renewable Source of Cancer-Fighting T Cells
Stem cells (via PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay) Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles developed a technique for turning pluripotent stem cells into cancer-killing T cells. The new...
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This Insulin-Delivering Pill Could Replace Injections for Diabetics
An MIT-led research team developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of insulin (via Felice Frankel/MIT) Scientists developed a pill that could replace insulin injections for...
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FDA Warns Against Young Blood Transfusions As Medical Treatment
(via PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay) Dear rich old folks: Please stop injecting yourself with the blood of young people. A growing number of clinics across the US offer infusions of plasma specifically...
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Second Patient Cleared of HIV After Stem-Cell Therapy
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 (in green) budding from cultured lymphocyte (via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) A second person appears to be in remission from human...
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FDA Approves First New Major Depression Drug in Decades
Spravato is a prescription medicine for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in adults (via Janssen Pharmaceuticals) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved a rapid-acting...
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World’s First 5G-Powered Remote Brain Surgery Performed in China
A surgery using 5G technology powered by NTT and Docomo is simulated during the Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo Credit: Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A...
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Hell Yeah, Teens Are Growing Skull Horns From Phone Use
In the video game Doom, humanity attempts to solve the energy crisis by tapping into the power of the Devil’s domain itself through a diabolical portal on Mars. “We exploited Hell and its resources...
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AI Better Than Doctors at Detecting Brain Hemorrhages
A deep learning algorithm recognizes abnormal CT scans of the head in neurological emergencies in 1 second. (Photo Credit: University of California, San Francisco) This algorithm is better at finding...
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