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Daily insulin injections are painful and inconvenient, which is why scientists are developing implants that treat diabetes without any need for needles. A new one looks particularly promising, as it produces oxygen to feed onboard islet cells.

Although it's important to know if someone has experienced a concussion, the injuries are notoriously difficult to diagnose. According to a new study, however, urine tests may do the trick – plus they could be used to monitor the healing process.

Scientists investigating a root cause of leukemia have made a key discovery around how genetic mutations can cause blood stem cells to go rogue, forming dangerous populations of cloned cells that can go on to become cancerous.

A new study is reporting half of US children under the age of six have detectable levels of lead in their blood. The study tracked data from over a million children and is the first of this scale to analyze small traces of lead in blood samples.

Central to the aging process are tiny caps on the ends of our chromosomes called telomeres that deteriorate over time. A Harvard team has now made an exciting breakthrough, discovering a set of small molecules that preserve their length in mice.

A ventricular assistive device (VAD) is sometimes used to help pump blood through the ventricle on one side of the heart. There can be problems with conventional VADs, however, which a new soft robotic device may be able to address.

​Heart failure is a multi-billion-dollar problem with no readily available solution in sight. Could a soft-robotic implant that mimics the natural motion of the heart bring us closer to one?​

A hole in the heart is never a good thing, so when an infant is born with such a defect, doctors have to act quickly to fix it. Now, scientists have developed a sort of superglue for the heart, that quickly and securely bonds patches to such holes.