Coffin-building club helps seniors face death and enjoy life
These seniors are tackling the stigma around death by decorating their own coffins.
Using neuroscience to talk to people in a vegetative state
A scientist figures out how to talk to the brain when the body won’t respond.
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Reprogramming your immune system to fight cancer
Your T cells already know how to kill cancer. These doctors can train them to hunt it down.
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Using virtual reality to help kids with autism
A virtual world offers a new way to engage with kids on the spectrum.
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Helping kids walk with wearable robots
Exoskeletons aren’t just science fiction anymore. Wearable robots are helping kids with cerebral palsy walk.
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Hunting down his son’s killer
For years, there was no diagnosis, no treatment, and no cure — because his son’s disease had never been seen before. That wasn’t going to stop this dad.
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Can genetically modified pigs be the key to treating rare diseases?
When it comes to rare diseases, doctors often don’t have enough patients to determine the effectiveness of various treatments. Now, scientists are breeding pigs with the same genetic code as people with a disease in order to create a pool of test “patients” unlike any before.
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Can virtual reality help fight the opioid crisis?
VR has long been seen as an escape from the real world. But recently researchers have been putting an unexpected twist on that. They’re now exploring how VR could provide an escape from an unfortunate reality many face everyday: chronic pain.
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These gloves can teach you to play the piano. And maybe heal your brain.
Through “passive haptic learning”, these gloves can teach you how to play the piano in an hour. Braille in four hours. Now researchers want to see if victims of traumatic brain injuries can use these gloves to re-learn critical skills.
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How 3D printing is revolutionizing heart surgery
When a young boy was facing a complicated and dangerous heart operation, his doctors created an exact model of his heart to plan the surgery. And it probably saved his life.
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These doctors are performing brain surgery … using sound
Bonnie D’Ettorre suffers from a nerve disorder causing uncontrollable shaking. Doctors at Ohio State are about to “burn it out” using a thousand beams of ultrasound.
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The world’s first bionic drummer
Jason Barnes lost his arm in a horrible accident. Then he became the fastest drummer in the world…
For people in prison, a second chance to give back
50% of people released from prison return within three years. This program is changing that.
The smartwatch that could save lives
Epilepsy can be a scary and dangerous condition. Could this seizure-detecting smartwatch provide peace of mind and save lives?
Can sleep deprivation cure depression?
Losing sleep can have a lot of adverse health effects, but recent science shows it could also have a surprising upside
Why prisons are showing nature videos to inmates
Watching nature videos in the unlikeliest of places
Is this the end of language barriers?
What if you could travel anywhere in the world and there was no language barrier?
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Having your views challenged is a good thing
When we encounter ideas we don’t like, we often shut them down. Professor John Inazu explains why that’s a bad thing and what we can do to fix it.
Reducing food waste and feeding the hungry
What if instead of throwing out leftover food, we used it to feed the hungry?
Could growing vaccines in plants save lives?
Vaccines for influenza, polio, smallpox, even Ebola have all be grown … in plants.