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8 months ago

Dementia: The Self-Portraits of William Utermohlen

When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist living in London, immediately began work on an ambitious series of self-portraits.

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News
5 days ago

U.S. Supreme Court Says “Natural” Human Genes May Not Be Patented

The decision should reduce uncertainty in the field of molecular diagnostics.

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6 months ago

Physicists Use Electrical Signals From Slime Mould to Make Music

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News
1 month ago

Preventing Migraines with a New Kind of Antibody

A biopharmaceutical company will know this year whether an antibody produced using a unique technique can prevent chronic migraines.

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News
9 months ago

A Brain Implant that Thinks

A monkey study suggests that neural implants could one day help brain-damaged patients perform specific cognitive tasks.

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News
6 months ago

Gene Therapy on the Mend as Treatment Gets Western Approval

Regulatory approval of a gene therapy treatment in Europe could spark broader patient access to the technology.

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News
6 months ago

Scorpion Protein Illuminates Brain Tumors for Surgeons

A compound derived from a toxin from scorpion venom could help neurosurgeons differentiate between healthy and cancerous brain tissue.

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News
5 days ago

Artificial Spleen Offers Hope for Faster Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Researchers are designing a “dialysis-like” machine that could identify and remove pathogens responsible for an often lethal blood infection.

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News
3 months ago

Molecule Helps Nanoparticles Sneak Past the Immune System

Researchers have given nanoparticles the ability to tell immune cells not to eat them, a development that could have broad implications for medicine.

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Review
5 months ago

Why We Have a Right to Consumer Genetics

It’s hard to get straightforward health guidance from personal genome tests, which are banned in some places. But one way to make them more meaningful is to let more people buy them.

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