Medicine
Fighting Fake Pharmaceuticals with Tiny, Edible Bar Codes
Researchers have created bar codes so small they can be embedded in medications, creating a tool to combat the global problem of drug fraud
Why Ancestral Puebloans Honored People With Extra Digits
New research shows having extra toes or fingers was a revered trait among people living in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Instead of Painkillers, Some Doctors Are Prescribing Virtual Reality
Virtual reality therapy may be medicine's newest frontier, as VR devices become better and cheaper
How Fetus Dissections in the Victorian Era Helped Shape Today’s Abortion Wars
Besides teaching us about disease and human development, they molded modern attitudes of the fetus as distinct entity from the mother
New Study Calls the Reliability of Brain Scan Research Into Question
Three million analyses point to a problem with fMRI brain activity studies
Why People Abandon High-Tech Prosthetics
That Luke Skywalker prosthetic arm may strike the average user as less than sensational
Childhood Leukemia Was Practically Untreatable Until Dr. Don Pinkel and St. Jude Hospital Found a Cure
A half century ago, a young doctor took on a deadly form of cancer—and the scientific establishment
Editing of Human Genes May Begin by Year’s End in the U.S.
The first-ever trial of CRISPR in the U.S. will test if it's safe to edit T cells in cancer patients
Why We're Giving People 20 Percent Doses of the Yellow Fever Vaccine
Vaccine stores in Africa have repeatedly been depleted. The WHO's decision to allow mini-doses reflects a precarious—and cyclical—shortage
Scientists May Be Able To Pack All Your Medications Into One "Personalized" Pill
And nine other things you never thought could be made on a 3D printer
See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum
It's hard to look, and hard to look away, at this unique, and medically valuable, collection of wax blisters, hives and sores
How Drunk Are You? Ask Your Bracelet
The BACtrack Skyn, a wearable similar in style to a Fitbit, tracks your blood alcohol level in real time
This Edible Supercapacitor Could Transform Ingestible Electronics
The materials for a new electronic component that could power a tiny camera sound more like breakfast than science
Doctors Diagnose Diseases of Subjects in Two Famous Paintings
The doctor will frame you now
Old Cosmetics Made New Again Through the Art of Digitization
Arsenic Complexion Wafers? A whole new world of yesteryear cosmetics just got a refresh
How to Make Science Fiction Become Fact, in Three Steps
Speakers at <em>Smithsonian</em> magazine's "Future is Here" festival said be patient, persistent, but never, ever pessimistic
Marijuana Advocates Want to Establish a Standard Unit of Highness
What’s the weed equivalent to an alcoholic drink?
Vaccine Switch Marks a New (and Hopefully Last) Stage in the Battle With Polio
Over the weekend, health officials began replacing the current polio vaccination in an effort to wipe out one of three strains of the virus
Anthony Fauci Is Waging War Against Zika, and Preparing for Other Epidemics to Come
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases talks about developing a Zika vaccine
Taking a Cue from Textile-Making to Engineer Human Tissue
Researchers in search of a faster, cheaper way to engineer human tissue found success in traditional textile production methods.
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