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REUTERS/Luis Galdamez Daily Mail: Would YOU take it? Scientists discover breakthrough blood test that could 'predict how long peop...

The virus SV40, which might cause cancer in humans. Phoebus87 via Wikimedia Commons Popular Science: Your History In A Drop Of Blood ...

The NeuroArm, a non-ferrous microsurgical robot—shown here with an electrified cutting tool and suction instrument—was used to remove a p...

Blood: Injecting oxygen into the bloodstream could help keep patients who cannot breathe alive while undergoing medical treatment Scientist ...

Man With No Pulse: How Turbines Can Replace A Heart -- New Scientist You no longer need a heartbeat to be alive. In a groundbreaking surgery...

From New Scientist: Amanda Boxtel, a wheelchair user, is about to stand up. A skiing accident 18 years ago partially severed her spinal cord...

Surgical robot Sofie. (Credit: Bart van Overbeeke) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2010) — Robotic surgery makes it possible to p...

Photo : Fibre-optic probes could use lasers to distinguish between cancerous, pre-cancerous and healthy cells From The BBC: Portable devices...

The initial object imaged through a layer of white paint (A) was a 32-pixel by 32-pixel image of a flower; the image was reconstructed with ...

A new DNA test uses saliva to determine whether someone is prone to developing a life-threatening illness. From The Guardian: Quick, low-cos...

From The Telegraph: Fundamental differences between skull and limb bones have been identified by British scientists in a discovery they hope...

Photo: Immediate treatment can save lives. From The BBC: Scientists say they have made a synthetic blood-clotting agent that could help wou...

Artist's impression of blood flow, including red and white blood cells and platelets (shown here in yellow). Synthetic platelets bind to...

Better Medevac Darpa is investing nearly $10 million in creating a medical cocktail that will suspend soldiers' animation after sustaini...

A new 'sticking plaster' technique could repair damaged spinal cords, helping people to walk again From The Daily Mail: Scientists l...

Mo-99 One plan is to retrofit the University of Missouri Research Reactor to make Mo-99, but that won’t be completed until 2012. Courtesy ...

Photo: Spray-on skin: In a unique treatment for second-degree burns, surgeons harvest a small number of skin cells through a skin biopsy, s...

From Slate: Researchers hope to create a better way to diagnose swine flu and other ailments. Crude methods of detecting swine flu have so f...

Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - San Diego) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Oct. 31, 2009) ...

Getting under the skin, virtually (Image: University of Bern) From New Scientist: THE small industrial robot that dominates the room is in m...