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Researchers have developed a device that can diagnose 17 diseases from a single breath.

Experimental Ebola Vaccine 100% Effective, Study Finds

Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years.

Zika in fetal brain tissue responds to a popular antibiotic

New drug 'wakes up' immune system to fight one of deadliest cancers.

Canadian clay kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria on contact.

A new "bed-of-nails" nano-surface selectively rips apart bacteria and leaves animal cells alone.

A crowdsourced study of 450,000 customers of 23andMe has uncovered the first major trove of genetic clues to the cause of depression.

Remember the ice bucket challenge? It just funded an ALS breakthrough.

Wearable Artificial Kidney Completes First Clinical Trial, Could Free People From Dialysis

In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human

One Person’s Cancer Can Be Fought Using Someone Else’s Immune Cells, Study Finds

Scientists discover the first ever safe way to send medication into the placenta during pregnancy, which could eliminate premature births.

New Tech Can Analyze Your Lung Health Through A Phone Call

A Change of Heart

3D Printed Ovaries Allow Infertile Mice to Give Birth

This temporary tattoo can monitor diabetics' glucose levels as accurately as a finger prick.

Scientists inject human nerve cells into a brain, converting adult tissue-derived stem cells into human neurons on 3D scaffolds of fibers.

Scientists have developed a new method for harvesting stem cells, which is less invasive and reduces side effects for donors.

A New Kidney Transplant Procedure Makes All Donors Compatible

Pluripotent Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Let Us Grow New Human Eyes

Jimmy Carter is no longer being treated for cancer. Immunotherapy has made him cancer free.

By 2020, You May Be Able to Test Yourself for Cancer In Your Own Home

How an MIT Professor’s failed experiment saved the lives of innumerable child burn victims

Alzheimer's: Newly identified molecular mechanism NCAM2 associated with synapse loss could lead to treatment.

New Trigeminal Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches

Researchers developed a blood test that diagnoses from a single blood drop if a person has cancer, with 96% certainty for most cancer types.

DARPA's new program plans to stimulate your nerves for self-healing

Harvard scientist announces simultaneous editing of 62 genes in a single pig embryo using CRISPR / Cas9, a new record.

Stem cell trial aims to cure blindness.

For the first time, a paraplegic has walked without a robotic suit.

Drug successfully reverses the effects of Alzheimer's in rats, fully restoring memory function.

Fecal transplants can eliminate two of the most common antibiotic-resistant superbug bacteria circulating in hospitals, mice study finds.

100 percent of participants taking HIV prevention pill Truvada remained infection-free.

Hacked Raspberry Pi turned into artificial pancreas

Cancer cells programmed back to normal by US scientists

Scientists are close to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials with animals.

Jimmy Carter is trying a new drug Keytruda to fight cancer. "It's a new class of therapy. It allows our own immune system to fight cancer."

Google Alphabet company Life Sciences has two diabetes products.

In CRISPR advancement, scientists successfully edited human T cells to resist HIV and to fight cancer. T cell ftw!

A biotech company is genetically engineering pigs so that their organs might work in people.

CRISPR enables genetic modification chain reaction to spread a gene through a whole population. This could be employed to wipe out malaria.

Stanford team turns yeast into painkillers

Ebola Vaccine Trial Proves 100% Successful in Guinea

What do cochlear implants sound like?

World's first 'feeling' leg prosthesis offers hope to amputees

The fountain of youth and health might be blooming in your front yard

Diabetes Has a New Enemy: Robo-Pancreas

Scientists are one step closer to growing replacement limbs

Cardiff University scientists discover asthma's root cause

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