Medical Technology

High costs keep patients from using stem cells harvested from umbilical cords

The only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations plans to end the practice from next month, a state-run newspaper reports

Everybody and his uncle, it seems, has an idea of something that might work to cure people infected with the deadly virus

A recent report from Europol's European Cybercrime Center includes a forecast that the world's first "online murder" will likely occur before the end of 2014.

About 50,000 people are alive today because U.S. hospitals committed 17 percent fewer medical errors in 2013 than in 2010, government health officials said

Self-correcting screens on smartphones and iPads tailor themselves to a viewer's vision—no glasses necessary

Taking control of cells by squeezing them

A DNA-editing technique based on bacterial “memories” could revolutionize medicine. But some worry it could get out of control

A Body Worlds–inspired method promises to speed up biomedical research

Mathematical modeling isn't just for physicists any more. Using mathematical equations and computer programs to simulate reality is becoming vitally important to understanding biology as well

Saliva could be a new renewable energy source for medical devices

When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data indicating that such transfusions work.