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A breakthrough in biomedical engineering could help pave the way for tiny implantable devices capable of diagnosing, ...

One day, tiny swimming robots may travel through the human body to deliver drugs. The medication would target only areas of ...

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UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

In 218 BCE, the Carthaginian general crossed the rugged mountain range with 40,000 men, 7,000 horses and 37 war elephants.

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The closer we get to the end the year, the closer we get to the ground-breaking, if not science-fiction-sounding, head transplant surgery slated to take place in 2017. That is when the Italian surgeon ...

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Neurologists have a term for what millions of people over 40 experience without alarm: normal cognitive aging. A name escapes ...

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Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...