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Labs are currently competing to develop brain implants. Advances in cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging technologies have started to provide us with the ability to interface directly with the human brain. Researchers have used these technologies to build brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), communication systems that do not depend on the brain’s normal output pathways of peripheral nerves […]
Christmas 2013 and David Fajgenbaum was in a hospital bed at the University of Arkansas, stricken with Castleman disease, a rare autoimmune disorder involving an overgrowth of cells in the body’s lymph nodes. A doctor told him to write his living will on a piece of paper. Massive “shock and awe” chemotherapy regimes had helped […]
Please take a minute today and remember the 9/11 victims. The 2,996 people, including 412 first responders killed, the 6000 who were injured and the nearly 2000 survivors who have subsequently been diagnosed with cancer. This atrocity claimed the lives of people from 90 countries. It is high time to dial down hate speech and […]
While death is inevitable, knowing when it will come is usually more difficult to predict. Scientists have been trying to develop a test that could reliably and easily predict how long a person will live, or, more technically, how healthy they are and therefore how vulnerable they might be to major mortality risk factors. Blood tests are the most […]
T-cells extracted from a tumor, expanded and then re-introduced into the body have resulted in the disappearance of tumors in a woman with metastatic breast cancer. Research published in Nature Medicine by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has described a new immunotherapy approach, which led to a complete disappearance of tumors in a woman with […]
