Biotech
SARS Outbreak Isolators Helped "Ebola Air" Fly Infected Patients
The airplane transport isolators being used to fly Ebola patients for treatment have origins in the 2003 SARS epidemic
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Mind & Brain
Journey Through the Brain: MIT Neurotech
Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series about emerging neurotechnologies. Join a pilot class of 12 PhD students at MIT as we explore how neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of the brain...
Health
Bio-Spleen Sucks Pathogens and Toxins from Blood
The new device rids the blood of bacteria, fungi, viruses and toxins using nanoscale-size magnetic beads. Cynthia Graber reports
Health
New Tracking Technologies Aim to Prevent Sloppy Handling at U.S. Biolabs
The CDC is piloting cameras and tablets in high-level biosafety spaces in an effort to avoid future infectious disease botch-ups
Health
Artificial spleen cleans up blood
The newly developed device improves survival in rats after severe infections with everything from E. coli to Ebola
Technology
5 Ways to Thwart Illegal Drug Dealing Online
Recent reports from ABC News and the UK's Daily Mail suggest eBay is providing a platform for sellers engaged in an illegal prescription drug trade.
Health
Next-Generation Stem Cells Transplanted in Human for the First Time
Surgeons implanted retinal tissue created after reverting the patient's own cells to a "pluripotent" state
Technology
Smartphone App Takes Morality Science Out of the Lab and Into the Real World
Just when it seems there's a mobile app for just about everything, psychologists have shown there's room for one more: they are using smartphones to help them better understand the dynamics of moral and immoral behavior out in the community...
Health
Map of Body’s Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
The Lasker Awards are called the “American Nobels,” and one of the new winners says curiosity is his driving force
Induced Labor Decreases Rate of Cesareans, Study Finds
I used to think there was no question about this. Induction was the prologue to a long, hard labor that often wouldn’t go well. And cesarean section was the (un)natural logical end of that...
Health
Blood Transfusions from Survivors Best Way to Fight Ebola
A panel of experts from the World Health Organization says blood plasma and whole blood transfusions should have priority—for now
Health
Cadavers and Curios from the Dawn of Modern Medicine [Slide Show]
Illustrations from the new book Dr. Mütter’s Marvels chronicle the tools available to 19th-century Philadelphia doctor and medical innovator Thomas Mütter
Could Deep Brain Stimulation Fortify Soldiers' Minds?
As many as 20 percent of war veterans return from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression, according to a 2008 report from the RAND Corporation...
Health
Ebola Now Poses a Threat to National Security in West Africa
The virus remains unchecked because of the lack of a global effort to implement emergency public-health measures
Environment
Bacteria Used to Create Fossil Fuel Alternative
British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves...
Evolution
Polar bear DNA found from tracks in snow, in conservation step
Polar bear DNA has been isolated for the first time from footprints left in the snow on an Arctic island, a breakthrough that could help scientists better protect rare and endangered wild animals, experts said on Tuesday...
Health
Supercooled Organ Donations Could Last for Days
Scientists preserve viable rat livers for three days with new method
Health
Magnetic Detection of Malaria Shows Promise
A quick method detects by-products of the parasite's growth in the blood and is more portable and less error-prone than conventional tests
The Sciences
Satirists As a Source of Science News
How many times have you read a science-themed article from The Onion or watched a science-themed segment on The Daily Show (TDS) or The Colbert Report (CR) and remarked at how “spot on” they are?...
Evolution
Ancient DNA Could Return Passenger Pigeons to the Sky
Genetic engineering could restore the once profuse North American bird after a century or more of extinction
