Predictive Model Identifies Patients Who Might Go Into Septic Shock
Health Earlier intervention could save thousands of lives per year If an infection goes too far, a patient can develop sepsis, an inflammatory response that spreads throughout the body and can...
View ArticleBiotech Company Is Developing Transplantable Pig Organs For Humans
Health Pigs are good for more than just bacon Every year, around 8,000 people die waiting for an organ transplant. There just doesn't seem to be enough human organs available for those who need them....
View ArticleWith Gene Editing, Pigs Could Be The Perfect Organ Donor
Health And they would contain at least ten times more edited genes than any other animal yet For years, scientists have been trying to manipulate pig organs so that they could be transplanted into the...
View ArticleYou Can Find An Organ Donor On Social Media
Health Yet another somewhat illegal use for the Internet Social media sites like Facebook are known for connecting people around the world as never before. They are also facilitating a somewhat...
View ArticleScientists Create Artificial Tissues With A Cotton Candy Machine
Health Spinning up a small intestine Artificial tissues can be made with a $40 commercial cotton candy machine. Artificial tissues can be made with a $40 commercial cotton candy machine.
View ArticlePeek Inside Your Body With An Augmented Reality T-Shirt
Gadgets Check out your friends' guts Virtuali-Tee, an augmented reality t-shirt, brings tech and biology together by printing a coded pattern on apparel.
View Article6 body parts that hid from science in plain sight
Health The newly "discovered" mesentery isn't the only wily organ From the brain to the genitals, our bodies host bits that have remained hidden or misunderstood for much of history.
View ArticleCelebrate Valentine's Day by eating an actual heart (seriously)
Health An ode to organ meats Most aphrodisiacs don’t work. You know what does bump up your lover’s libido? Demonstrating your passion by showing how much you care about their nutrition. Feed them a…
View ArticleThe quest to engineer entire organs in a lab
Entertainment Excerpt: The Body Builders In an excerpt from his book, The Body Builders, Adam Piore details one engineer's attempts to create fully functioning and healthy organs in a lab.
View ArticleScientists found a ‘new organ,’ but it might not be what you’re expecting
Health The interstitium helps hold our organs together, but it might do more than that. In a report out last week in the journal Scientific Reports, doctors identified what they think could be a...
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