The woman who can feel roughness or smoothness in her artificial hands for the first time in years; the child whose artificial leg lengthens as he grows; the previously armless man who can reach into a cabinet above his head to prepare dinner; machines that will some day register sensations in much ...
Researchers at two Southern California schools may have achieved a breakthrough in the search for chemicals that can slow -- or even reverse -- the progression of Alzheimer's disease and possibly even diabetes. Surprisingly, the breakthrough didn't come from doctoral programs at UCLA or USC. It ca...
It's not "Star Trek" and Dr. "Bones" McCoy's tricorder sensor, but it is one step closer to where no medical patient has gone before; the ability to stream his or her vital signs from a health monitoring device to a computer, thanks to a partnership announced Thursday by IBM and Google. IBM's new so...
Candidate Barack Obama promised to lift Bush Administration restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Two days after he became President Obama, the government gave its approval for the first-ever human trials using therapies derived from this controversial area of science. Geron, a Menlo Park, C...
Scientists at IBM Research, along with researchers the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, say they have developed and demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging technology with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. Results of the demonstration were publi...
New research has suggested that technology-based, non-invasive and drug-free techniques may be effective at relieving pain for some migraine sufferers, according to a study presented at the annual American Headache Society meeting in Boston. The treatment used in clinical trials conducted by Dr. Ric...
A group of researchers have successfully cloned primate embryos for the first time and used them to create stem cells, opening up the possibility that the same could potentially be done with humans. Using a technique called "somatic cell nuclear transfer," the researchers produced rhesus macaque mon...
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