Replacing the doctor with an intelligent medical robot is a recurring theme in science fiction,…
TECHNOLOGY
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Chicago improved the speed,…
Genome editing is a powerful technique that has the potential to correct human diseases caused…
For several years, scientists have experimented on human embryos with a powerful genome editing tool…
A proposal to create a living model of the human retina, the light-sensitive tissue at…
Especially cruel hackers know that lives are on the line when they hold a hospital’s…
A new biosecurity initiative at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) aims to identify and…
Up to 27,000 microbiology laboratories around the world could benefit from a ground-breaking automation technology…
Biological “detectives” are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia (“rabbit fever”),…
Rapid improvement in DNA sequencing has sparked a proliferation of medical and genetic tests that promise to…
