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This brain implant can translate brain waves into real-time communication
Duke scientists create brain implant — Prosthetic decodes signals from brain’s speech center to predict what sound someone is trying ...
Skin vision: How bizarre hogfish that ‘sees with its skin’ can help us develop robotic limbs and self-driving cars
Without a mirror, it can be hard to tell if you're blushing, or have spinach in your teeth. But one ...
Have we discovered a key switch for our biological clocks?
Our circadian clocks can be misaligned by a variety of reasons. Some of us are morning larks, other night owls ...
CRISPR shows potential to control high cholesterol in mice
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used a CRISPR/Cas9 genetic engineering technique to turn off a gene that regulates cholesterol ...
‘Fault-free obesity’: How much are fat-storing genes causing expanding waistlines?
Obesity is often attributed to a simple equation: People are eating too much and exercising too little. But evidence is ...
How the human immune system resets after Staph infection
When pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella or Staphylococcus invade our bodies, we go into a state of high alert and alter ...
Lower testosterone correlates with evolution of early human culture
Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that ...
A call for action: Genetic testing before prescriptions
Codeine is an opioid pain medication; but if you are a poor metabolizer of a particular enzyme (CYP2D6), you will experience ...