Cocaine has always been that drug that I only hear about. I see people using it all the time in film, television and books, but I've never met a user in my life. I blame that on gr...
Alzheimer's Disease is one of my most hated enemies. I watched as it slowly chipped away at my grandmother's life and sanity. It's one of those things that you don't really think a...
I've had friends and family taken by cancer, and the cause was always the same - it was caught too late. Granted, a lot of that has to do with people not getting annual screenings,...
I've said it once and I'll say it again - 3D printers are amazing. The technological wonder that allows us to create 3D objects simply by scanning them into a computer has the pote...
If you've been following our coverage of 3D printers, you know that I'm absolutely in love with them. They enable all sorts of amazing creations that were previously unheard of in...
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have significantly reduced from hours to minutes the time it takes to accurately detect autism in young children.
The process of diagnosing...
A team of scientists, engineers and physicians have found promising effects of a first-in-class targeted cancer drug called BIND-014 in treating solid tumors.
BIND-014 is the fi...
Dig if you will a picture: You've noticed a lump in your throat. It's not a painful lump but you can vaguely feel that it's constantly there. Over a month or so it doesn't go away,...
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They sa...
UAB researchers developed a new vehicle to release proteins with therapeutic effects. The vehicles are known as "bacteria inclusion bodies", stable insoluble nanoparticles which ar...
Researchers from Clemson University have found a way to create temporary holes in the membranes of live cells using a standard inkjet printer. The method will be published in JoVE,...
Researchers in New Zealand have developed a prototype Bluetooth-enabled medical monitoring device that can be connected wirelessly to your smart phone and keep track of various phy...