By taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper, researchers at Harvard's Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper. The result could be disposable diagnostic tests simple and abundant enough for use in the developing world. The field of microfluidics deals with the ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- America's top award in medicine, Albany Medical Center Prize, went Friday for the first time to two women scientists.     Elizabeth Blackburn of University of California, San Franciscoand and Joan Steitz of Yale University won the Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for their ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Martine Rothblatt founded Sirius Satellite Radio from a desire to link people together. She founded United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR), which has a research and development facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C.,  from a desperation to save her daughter's life. With no background in medicine, ...

Muscles that make up the human heart have been made from embryonic stem cells for the first time.

From Copenhagen - Taking vitamins on a daily basis may not help you live longer, and may even raise the risk of death. In a meta-analysis of 67 randomized clinical trials and data from over 200,000 subjects, taking vitamins did not have an overall positive effect on longevity. Vitamin A was shown to raise mortality by 16%, beta-carotene by 7% ...

He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose contributions to medicine and the emerging fields of biotechnology are highly recognized and respected around the world.

Cellular Matrix is helping in the Regenerative Medicine. Watch as this gentleman lost the tip of his finger and then grew it back with the vessles and fingernail all in 4 weeks.

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The creation of a human embryo from 1 man and 2 women! Could help prevent passing on genetic diseases.

Is avain flu on the way? What steps are we taking now to prepare for the worst? Is a possible to create a universal vaccine?