After a car crash, most drivers are shaken, frustrated, and just want their vehicle fixed correctly. Unfortunately, that is also the moment when insurance companies tend to take control of ...
Spend 60 seconds in the scorching heat of the desert sun and it's enough to make you break for shade; but imagine spending a few decades in the same open environment and you already know its results ...
Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...
Using scaffolds and a patients own cells grown in a laboratory, researchers are building replacement body parts. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Anthony Atala works in the body shop of ...
The idea of the body healing itself may be close to making a huge leap forward. Much closer than we think. The rapidly evolving field of regenerative medicine—including stem cells, 3-D printing and ...