In this powerful TED Talk, Dr. Abbas Ardehali shares the story of a 22-year-old COVID patient whose life was saved by a ...

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A 31-year-old farmer and father of one died on Sept. 18, weeks after being bitten by a fly while farming in Northumberland, ...

As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.

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Modern medicine can mend bones, replace organs and extend life — but what does it do for the human spirit? In her new column, ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new stem cell-based model that produces human blood cells in the ...

What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells?

Soon they're breathing faster, their blood vessels are dilating and their heart is working overtime to pump much more blood than usual through their body, fighting to get oxygen to their muscles and ...