We’ve all see video of some chicken wandering around sans their head and other various Frankensteinish type medical wonders but somehow the idea of something in a petri dish in a lab having a pulse you can measure isn’t high on the list of things to watch. That’s a shame because even though it might be hard to believe scientists have managed, with stem cells, to create the smooth muscle…

Okay, this is pretty awesome. Even though I have never had to recover from any broken bones I have known people who have and the months involved, not just in the healing itself but also the rehab, can be really debilitating for people to deal with. Thanks to some researchers at the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center we may actually have a whole new way to help broken bones…

Say what you want about Microsoft as a company but their Research department is always looking to try and do some pretty incredible things that go beyond just making the company money and look to make a difference in people’s lives. Case in point is a project they are working on that will allow you to wear contact lenses that are able to monitor you blood glucose level and while…

Ebola is a killer virus; normally found in animals, primarily bats, which causes what is referred to as a hemorrhagic fever. It is this reaction that can make the infected person to bleed from all their orifices. The virus was first discovered in 1976 when the nations of Sudan and Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo) suffered two deadly outbreaks in which 90 percent of the…

I’m not sure how many ways you can say “Not Cool” when it comes to doing drugs but this new designer drug that is hitting Russia really hard brings us a whole new level of WTF! The drug is called Krokoil; and this is no joke – it will eat the skin, and muscle, right off your body while you are still alive. The drug is a substitute for heroin and is…

When surgeons get ready to perform complicated bone surgeries they often will use expensive models of the the bones involved in the operation. These models are created by specialist manufacturers who can end up charging thousands of dollars depending on the complexity of the bones being modeled. Now, thanks to British surgery trainee Mark Frame there is now a cheaper and quicker way for surgeons to get those models. Using…