China to End Use of Prisoners' Organs for Transplants Next Month
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
Ebola Free-for-All Could Trigger Bad Science and Wasted Efforts
Everybody and his uncle, it seems, has an idea of something that might work to cure people infected with the deadly virus
Facing Up to Online Murder and Other Cybercrimes
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.
U.S. Hospitals Make Fewer Serious Errors, Saving 50,000 Lives
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
How to Hijack A Cell
Taking control of cells by squeezing them
Smartphone Screens Correct for Your Vision Flaws
Self-correcting screens on smartphones and iPads tailor themselves to a viewer's vision—no glasses necessary
Fuel Cell Runs on Spit
Saliva could be a new renewable energy source for medical devices
Is the Gene-Editing Revolution Finally Here?
A DNA-editing technique based on bacterial “memories” could revolutionize medicine. But some worry it could get out of control
Turning Lab Animals Transparent
A Body Worlds–inspired method promises to speed up biomedical research
Why Biologists Need More Computer Power [Video]
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
Is the Blood of Ebola Survivors an Effective Treatment?
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.
Protein Project Could Help Expose Cancer’s Causes
Scientists unveil the world’s largest index of human protein interactions, which could pinpoint cancer genes.