If TV shows and movies are to be believed, families of people in a vegetative state spend hours upon hours at the patients bedside, having one-sided conversations in the hopes that the patient will understand them on some level. According to research bein

When you injure yourself, do you constantly find yourself lifting the bandage to check the wound underneath? If so, you could be introducing germs into the injury every time you peek. What if you could tell what was going on with your ouchies and boo-boos

When human bones suffer severe breaks, surgeons often use metal pins or rods to repair the damage. But these metal pieces have certain limitations in medical applications, such as in the case of shattered bones. Medical researchers have long searched for

Dissaya Nu Pornpattananangkul, a doctoral bioengineering student at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) has invented an innovative system for treating acne and keeping skin clean. The new technique uses nanoparticles (nano-bombs) that seek and d