The lifelong self-experiment of Santorius Santorius
Throughout history, certain scientists have solved the moral dilemma of experimenting on animals by turning themselves into guinea pigs instead. While this might not be the safest or even the […]
Category Archives: Medicine
A safe haven for chimps
The days in the lab are over for 110 chimpanzees. The chimps previously used for medical research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center are exploring their […]
Baby “cured” of HIV
As unlikely and miraculous as it seems, doctors have confirmed that a baby in Mississippi was “functionally cured” of HIV, which she contracted from her mother. Doctors won’t say the […]
Probiotics… for your face
Acne sprouting from eating greasy food or too much chocolate is a bit of an old wives’ tale; these days we’re often told that bacteria is the real culprit. Now […]
Sea turtle gets new limbs
It seems the world of prosthetics is continually taking remarkable leaps and bounds when it comes to helping people who’ve lost a leg walk again, or crafting a new arm […]
A 3-D printed ear
Some stem cell research critics are uncomfortable with the idea of bioengineering parts of the body. But what about printing them? Researchers led by Lawrence Bonassar at Cornell University are […]
How to scare the un-scarable
What is the most frightening thing in the world? A giant spider? A clown? A clown riding a giant spider? Actually, it’s carbon dioxide. I can see you require further […]
When practice won’t make perfect
If you attempted to learn the violin as a kid but never could get the hang of it, it might not be a personal ineptitude for music as you had […]
Our gait dictated by laziness
Actually, it’s something more like efficiency than laziness, but whether we’re walking or running all comes down to energy conservation. Researchers at the Movement Lab at Ohio State University have […]
Bird flu research back on
A little over year ago, influenza researchers called a moratorium on their work involving H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu. Ordinarily, we can’t contract the disease from birds, so the […]
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