This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface
With so few people outfitted with these devices, their longevity is still unknown. So far, the Utah array has lasted up to 10 years in monkeys. In Copeland’s case, his…
Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
According to the New Jersey lawsuit, police had reopened an investigation into a cold case and had used genetics to place the suspect within a single family: one of several…
What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?
They added the chemical that triggered the first gene (corresponding to barcode A) for 24 hours, followed by the one for the second gene (corresponding to barcode B) for the…
A Bioengineered Cornea Shows It Can Improve People’s Sight
After their transplants, the researchers followed the volunteers for two years. They concluded that the implants were safe to use and restored the thickness and curvature of the recipients’ natural…
The Pigs Died. Then Scientists Revived Their Cells
The pigs had been dead for an hour. The cause: cardiac arrest. But six hours after researchers at Yale University connected their bodies to a machine pumping a nutrient-rich fluid,…
The Age of Brain-Computer Interfaces Is on the Horizon
Synchron is making tangible progress. In August 2020, the company was granted an investigational device exemption from the FDA, allowing it to become the first company to conduct clinical trials…
There’s a Monkeypox Testing Bottleneck
But while a monkeypox test already existed, it required lab workers to do each step by hand, Morice says. Federal guidelines say testing should be done only by swabbing the…
This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
When a patient goes into a clinic for an ultrasound of their stomach, they lie down on crinkly paper atop an exam table. A clinician spreads a thick goo on…
California Wants to Make Cheap Insulin. Here’s How It Could Work
Insulin was first discovered in 1921, and the following year, a 14-year-old boy suffering from diabetes became the first person treated with it. The medical breakthrough won a Nobel Prize…
These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage
Even though the researchers only used a RBD from one version of Covid, their vaccine generated a robust polyclonal response—meaning it created multiple antibody types, rather than just one. To…