medical research

  1. VIDEO Scientists Create Artificial Cells Able to Mimic Important Functions

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  2. VIDEO COVID Blood Types | Are they associated with severe illness?

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  3. NEWS Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere.

    The new coronavirus kills by inflaming and clogging the tiny air sacs in the lungs, choking off the body’s oxygen supply until it shuts down the organs essential for life. But clinicians around the world are seeing evidence that suggests the virus also may be causing heart inflammation, acute...
  4. Making mixed reality: a conversation with Alexandros Sigaras and Sophia Roshal

    Link Removed Dr. Olivier Elemento (left) alongside with his Ph.D students Neil Madhukar and Katie Gayvert, analyze medical network data (photo courtesy of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine) Welcome! This is Making mixed reality, a series celebrating the passionate community...
  5. NEWS Ebola ‘may have reached turning point’

    The Ebola epidemic in west Africa may have reached a turning point, according to the director of the Wellcome Trust, which is funding an unprecedented series of fast-tracked trials of vaccines and drugs against the disease. Writing in the Guardian, Dr Jeremy Farrar says that although there are...
  6. Spider venom better than Viagra?

    Most of us get a little excited when we see a big spider, but for the unfortunate few who fall victim to the bite of the daunting Brazilian wandering spider, that “excitement” takes on a whole new meaning: The venom of the wandering spider -- also known as the banana spider (or more formally...
  7. Tree Man who grew 'roots' offered hope of new life by doctor

    Link Removed - December 24, 2007 Link Removed An Indonesian fisherman who is "half man half tree" has been offered new hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A. 32-year-old Dede, who lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, feared that he...