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Sure, brain wave-controlled robots, music, cell-phones, and games give us tech lust, but Toyota’s announcement that it’s developed a way to control a wheel chair—without the need for movement or voice—fills me with equal amounts of awesome.

Seeing technology applied in a field that has the(…)

This may sound like something out of Iron Man, but it’s very real. Don Ingber has developed a machine that uses an electromagnet to suck sepsis-causing bacteria out of the blood.

In lab tests, Ingber’s team mixed donor blood with the fungus Candida albicans, a common

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Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells.

All three patients were blind in one eye. The researchers extracted stem cells from their(…)

If mosquitoes find you delicious, this gadget can help you find relief. Apparently, holding its heat source over the bite “helps neutralize the insect-injected proteins that cause itching and swelling.”

Something tells me that good old scratching is still the best medicine—that and avoiding bananas. I(…)

Digitization of medical records is one of Obama’s most prominent talking points: he claims modernizing records will save lives and billions of dollars at the same time. But some doctors aren’t taken with the idea.

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