BY RHIANN MOORE If you’ve spent your life forced to envy the simplistic, yet delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich, those days could soon be behind you. A treatment for the menacingly common peanut allergy is being proven to work by…
To tackle donor shortage, scientists have started growing our organs in pigs
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Known to science as chimeras – lab created embryos that are part human, part pig – could be a sustainable method of growing and harvesting transplant organs for patients in need. The ultimate goal is a future…
This new bionic spine could help people with paralysis walk again
BY: MARIYA GUZOVA Australian researchers are hoping to change the lives of millions of people with spinal cord injuries with a 3cm long net of electrodes and wires. This ‘bionic spine’ would allow paralyzed patients to control bionic limbs with…