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Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Using a SMART card containing your genetic information and medical history, you could one day soon be diagnosed and treated for all kinds of diseases at an ATM-style kiosk.
After a 4-year stretch as US Energy Secretary, during which he fought to fund research on clean energy technology, Steven Chu has announced his resignation.
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