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Using your thoughts to control robot arms and robot legs are the next big thing currently in development for paraplegics. Proof of concepts...

Organ transplantations are nothing new nowadays, as hospitals are readily replacing various organs, including lungs, heart, kidneys and oth...

3D printers have rapidly gained interest from both scientists as well as the general public. Hailed as machines that can make everything, t...

Blindness has been impossible to cure for a very long time. More recently, we have begun to understand how the eye turns light into the ele...

Because of a lack of donors it is highly necessary to find an alternative source of organs that can be used for transplantation. Recent stu...

Cancer treatment is intense and often results in severe side effects because anti-cancer drugs or radiotherapy can be quite toxic. For skin...

For those materials that we cannot find or produce from natural resources, we use chemistry. Chemical reactions in the lab cane take place ...

Our bodies, and those of other animals, consist of many cells that all interact with each other in order to acquire the necessary complexit...

The wages of war have resulted in the deaths of many people. For everybody's sake, it would be better to stop fighting altogether, but ...

Our brain consists of many wires that all connect to each other and communicate by means of electricity. Small electrical pulses travel alo...

Epilepsy is something like a temporary overload of the brain. The seizures that accompany the disease are defined as "abnormal excessi...

Sometimes science fiction turns into reality. That is the case with the recent success in  building a cyborg and achieving teleportation ....

Proteins are the basic building blocks of cells, and they have all sorts of functions. Some of them appear as true building blocks that hol...

A cell is the most basic form of life there is. Some organisms consist of just a single cell, but us human beings have billions of them. Be...

Blindness is very hard to cure, and it is one of the few things for which there are barely any effective treatments. Being blind is often p...

It is amazing what engineers can do nowadays. New technology has allowed us to create our own biological systems that can, for example, be ...

Robots are getting increasingly intelligent, as we advance in our technology. Nowadays, robots are capable of performing complex tasks, and...

Pacemakers are one of the oldest implantable devices that we use to adjust body functions. Such devices function by generating pulses that ...

Our attempts at understanding how the brain works have yielded very interesting results in the last couple of years We have seen paraplegic...

A lot of people suffer from migraine attacks, a condition that can be severely debilitating. It is a form of severe headache that periodica...