Tag: Medicine

• 10.29.07

  Blood Simple

  Developing Blood Substitutes Doctors predict that by the year 2030, U.S. medical clinics will suffer from a total shortage of four million units of blood, leaving scores of patients without the blood transfusions they desperately need. Luckily, a handful

• 10.29.07

  Beyond Blood

  Blood Substitutes May Be Able To Do What Regular Blood Cannot Those who speak of the promise of synthetic blood often focus on its potential use in trauma situations —such as after vehicular accidents, for example, or military combat. But there are

• 10.22.07

  Body Builders

  Anthony Atala bakes things that will make you feel good inside,but we're not talking cakes and muffins - we're talking human organs. Atala, a researcher at North Carolina's Wake Forest University School of Medicine,  broke new ground in medical tech

• 10.22.07

  An Arm and a Leg?

  Lizards Can Replace Missing Limbs - Someday Maybe We Will, Too Medical scientists recently scored a major breakthrough when they successfully implanted several people with the world's first laboratory-grown bladders. (See the whole story on WIRED Science

• 9.27.07

  Remote-Controlled Robot Surgery

  Doctors May Soon Operate From Miles Away Never mind RoboCop; the future belongs to RoboDoc. Sophisticated robots are already performing surgery in operating rooms around the world -- and may soon be saving lives on battlefields, underwater and in outer