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Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who was born with her heart outside her chest, is still alive three weeks after being delivered. Doctors expected a next to impossible chance for survival, but the baby has defied the odds.

News The worldwide unique transportable OP microscope differs to conventional devices with a total weight of only 12kg ... Contributed Author: CADENAS

News Wyss Institute researchers are generating implantable and injectable biomaterials to concentrate and trap disease-related T cells ... Contributed Author: Wyss Institute Topics: Implantables

News This could allow us to see viruses on the surface of cells ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News To date, DNA nanotechnology scientists have had to rely on two main methods for making spatially addressable structures with finite dimensions ... Contributed Author: Arizona State University

News The same cryptography-inspired technique could eventually be used to decode more complex patterns of muscle activation ... Contributed Author: University of Pennsylvania Topics: Neurology

News The second they got home, Dwayne went onto YouTube, looking up how to make a prosthetic eye for his daughter ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Implantables

Scientists aren't always considered to be the most festive group of people. But The British Medical Journal does its part to celebrate the spirit of the holidays with its annual Christmas issue. Once a year, the journal ...

News An example of using a body as a wire is a doctor reprogramming a patient's pacemaker or other implantable device without making an incision ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Wearables

News The researchers created four different types of heat-powered micro-grippers, of differing shapes and sizes ... Contributed Author: Plos

News Researchers created a new biosensor by depositing plasmonic metaparticles on a black, physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation ... Contributed Author: Aalto University

News We created a nanoparticle-based contrast agent for MRI ... Contributed Author: Binghamton University Topics: Cardiovascular

Up to 650 000 deaths annually are associated with respiratory diseases from seasonal influenza, according to new estimates by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC), WHO and global health p...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to development of vaccines and therapeutic ...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have made a discovery with potential human health impacts in a parchment tubeworm, found...

(McGill University Health Centre) At least a third of reactions in children with food-induced anaphylaxis to a known allergen occur under adult supervision, according to a new study led by AllerGen researchers in Quebec,...

(University of Pennsylvania) Researchers from Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine have landed on encouraging findings to take on Strongyloides stercoralis, a parasitic nematode that's infected millions of people around ...

(Queensland University of Technology) The Industrial Revolution of 200 years ago, powered by coal and steam engines, laid the foundations of modern society. World-first QUT-led research has found its effects are still fe...

(University of California - Davis) California's legal cannabis market, opening for business on Jan. 1, is expected to quickly grow to be the largest in the nation and worth more than $5 billion a year. County voting on P...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Two Johns Hopkins prostate cancer researchers found significant disparities when they submitted identical patient samples to two different commercial liquid biopsy providers. Liquid biopsy is a n...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that color vision in mice is far more complex than originally thought, opening the door t...

(The Wistar Institute) Wistar scientists revealed the mechanism implicated in the defective function of tumor-associated dendritic cells (DCs), a specialized type of immune cells that expose the antigens on their surface...