A woman appears to have been cured of HIV with a therapy using stem cells in umbilical cord blood, scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center say, making her the fourth person, and the first woman, apparently cured of the disease, and possibly...
A school of fish-y microbots could one day swim through your veins and deliver medicine to precise locations in your body — and cancer patients may be the first people to benefit from this revolution in nanotechnology. For the full article, click here.
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Abionic eye that could help visually impaired people see again is ready for clinical trials — and if it works as hoped, it might one day give us superhuman sight. For the full article, click here.
Brian Shelton wept. He checked his blood sugar, ate a meal with his ex-wife, checked his blood sugar again, and wept. His insulin levels were perfect. The type 1 diabetes that had caused him to crash his motorcycle, faint in a yard, and forced him to retire from the...
The Biden administration is considering a controversial proposal requiring international travelers, including United States citizens, to self-isolate for seven days, regardless of vaccination status or a negative coronavirus test. For the full article, click here.
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease, but artificial pancreases have thus far been limited to those with type 1. For the full article, click here.
Anew cardiac patch developed by Canadian researchers is both electrically conductive and flexible enough to be placed without risky open-chest surgery — two qualities that could give it an advantage over existing patches used to repair heart damage. For the full...
Damage to the heart after a heart attack is usually permanent. But scientists have created a new technique for repairing cardiac muscle post-heart attack by delivering gene silencers straight to the heart muscle. These gene silencers “turn down” genes that inhibit...
