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MIT Develops a Magnetic Hypospray for Needleless Shots
[Credit: MIT BioInstrumentation Lab] Out of all the technologies from Star Trek that I wanted to become a reality, the one I wanted the most was the Hypospray . I mean, who wouldn’t prefer being injected with an aerosol spray instead of being archaically stabbed with a piece of metal, hoping that it hit a vein.
Donor Heart Procurement for Cardiac Transplantation via Shutterstock in 1968, thirteen men gathered at the Harvard Medical School to virtually undo 5,000 years of the study of death. In a three-month period, the Harvard committee (full name: the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death) hammered out a simple set of criteria that today allows doctors to declare a person dead in less time than it takes to get a decent eye exam.
The Beating Heart Donors | Health & Medicine
Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice.
Cancer 'cure' in mice to be tested in humans
Scientists are increasingly finding that depression and other psychological disorders can be as much diseases of the body as of the mind.
New View of Depression: An Ailment of the Entire Body - WSJ.com
Data mining opens the door to predictive neuroscience
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Genetic 'Light Switches' Control Muscle Movement - Technology Review
Light movement: This image shows a cross-section of a mouse sciatic nerve genetically engineered to produce a light-sensitive protein (shown in green).
Here, at HuffPost Living , we have an obsession with sleep. How much should we be getting? Is there a difference between the genders?
Alana B. Elias Kornfeld: TEDMED 2009: Using Sleep As A Gateway Into The Brain
ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2012) — One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. The scientists discovered that certain proteins, called extremely long-lived proteins (ELLPs), which are found on the surface of the nucleus of neurons, have a remarkably long lifespan.
Why do cells age? Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging and neurodegenerative diseases
Babies with three parents possible within three years - Telegraph
It came as the Department of Health ordered a public consultation on whether the technology should be moved from the lab to patients, which will be followed by a Commons debate on the ethics of the issue.
Scientists may have found a way to treat infections that works better than antibiotics.
Cold Plasma Kills Bacteria Better Than Antibiotics : Discovery News
New bandage spurs, guides blood vessel growth
ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2011) — Researchers have developed a bandage that stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound.Image: nimh.nih.gov
Deep-Brain Stimulation Found to Fix Depression Long-Term: Scientific American
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection - MIT News Office
Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago.One evening this summer, in our final term at Cambridge, my roommate Katie threw a party.