Health
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...
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Health
Vast Majority of Life-Saving Cord Blood Sits Unused
High costs keep patients from using stem cells harvested from umbilical cords
Health
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
Health
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
Technology
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.
Health
Fuel Cell Runs on Spit
Saliva could be a new renewable energy source for medical devices
Health
Turning Lab Animals Transparent
A Body Worlds–inspired method promises to speed up biomedical research
Health
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
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...
Health
Protein Project Could Help Expose Cancer’s Causes
Scientists unveil the world’s largest index of human protein interactions, which could pinpoint cancer genes.
Health
Large Hospital Operator Halts Use of Fibroids Surgical Tool Linked to Cancer
The largest for-profit U.S. hospital operator said a procedure for removing uterine fibroids that has been linked to the spread of cancer will no longer be performed at its facilities
Health
How to Hijack A Cell
Taking control of cells by squeezing them
Mind & Brain
Mouse Experiment Suggests We Might Sleep Off Toxic Memories
One area of brain science that has drawn intense interest in recent years is the study of what psychologists call reconsolidation—a ponderous technical term that, once translated, means giving yourself a second chance...
Care of the Wounded, 1914
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 21, 1914 From the Scientific American Supplement issue of November 21, 1914, we note, "The first object of an army in war is to disperse or destroy the enemy, but a correlative duty is the care of its own men when wounded or otherwise [...]..
Battle of the `Staches Raises Money for Men's Health
People who donate money or fundraise for a cause are often silent heroes. However, unlike many fundraising efforts, it's readily apparent who's participating in one that's currently taking the nation by its facial hair...
Health
A Day in the Life of an Ebola Worker
Denial, violence and fear make it difficult to stamp out Ebola in west Africa
Health
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
Health
Improved Ebola Situation in Liberia May Complicate Vaccine Trials
As fewer people get sick, the trials may need to include more participants than planned to deliver usable results
Learning About Your Family's Elevated Alzheimer's Risk—As Early As Age Eight
A Colombian university is providing regular workshops on brain basics and genetics to grade schoolers from families who face a high risk of developing Alzheimer's in the prime of life from a rare genetic mutation...
The Sciences
Cellular 'computers' gain a hard drive
DNA-based memory can record multiple inputs from engineered gene circuits
