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Robot Surgeon Successfully Sews Pig Intestine

Automated surgical systems still need hand-holding, but one system holds its own against humans...

Audacious Stem Cell Plan Aims to Halt Rhino Extinction

Effort depends on transforming rhino tissue into sperm and egg cells

The Future of Medicine 2016

Beyond chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, doctors are uncovering new ways to harness the power of the patient’s immune system to combat cancer

Engineering Medical Care, 1916

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: April 29, 1916

Antibody Infusions Provide Long-Term Defense against HIV-Like Infection

Specialized proteins can protect monkeys against the virus for months

Genetic Treatments for Sickle Cell

When it comes to a devastating blood disorder, sometimes two wrongs make a right

The Rise and Fall of Theranos

How did the innovative blood-testing company fall so far, so fast?

GM Crop Planting Declines for the First Time

The total area sown with genetically modified plants fell 1 percent in 2015

Why We Know Whether a Swallow Is Frightened in a Storm [Excerpt]

What really happens on the Animal internet

Gene-Edited CRISPR Mushroom Escapes U.S. Regulation

Fungus is the first organism engineered by CRISPR – Cas9 to get a green-light from the U.S. government...

Transforming Stem Cells into Diabetes Beaters

Pancreatic type beta cells produced from stem cells can sense glucose, release insulin and treat a mouse model of diabetes. Christopher Intagliata reports.

2016 Winners of the Lemelson–M.I.T. Student Prize [Slide Show]

A nationwide search for the most inventive college students

Autism Glass Takes Top Student Health Tech Prize [Slide Show]

A Stanford grad student's invention uses Google Glass to help autistic children recognize facial and social cues in real time

Future of Medicine: How Doctors Boost the Immune System to Fight Cancer [Video]

Unexplained "Genetic Superheroes" Overcome Disease Mutations

Scientists focus on people who carry genetic mutations that cause severe childhood diseases—but don’t get them 

Second Chinese Team Reports Gene Editing in Human Embryos

Study used CRISPR technology to introduce HIV-resistance mutation into embryos 

HIV Fights Off CRISPR Gene-Editing Attack

Virus can quickly develop mutations that resist DNA-shearing enzymes

A Q&A with the Scientist Who Helped Create the "Cortex in a Dish" System

Researchers have cultured a network of neurons responsible for processing higher-level mental functions

Facing Down the World's Deadliest Pathogens in a BSL4 Lab

Researchers reach a crucial milestone despite the challenges of working under astronaut-like conditions