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How Artificial Arms Could Connect to the Nervous System (preview)
In one of the most iconic scenes in science-fiction films, Luke Skywalker casually examines his new synthetic forearm and hand. The Star Wars hero is able to move the fingers by extending and contracting pistons shown through an open flap along the wrist. Then he senses the robotic surgeon's pinprick of one of the fingers. Not only can the prosthesis be moved with Skywalker's thoughts, it feels to him like his own hand. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - January 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Health,Mind & Brain,Technology,Medical Technology,More Science,Neuroscience,Thought Cognition,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news

Antivenoms For Snake And Spider Bites Get A Much Needed Makeover
Over the past few years researchers in Mexico have become global leaders in developing drugs to treat bites from poisonous spiders and snakes. Several of their remedies are clearing the hurdles of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, including the scorpion antivenom Anascorp, which was approved by the FDA in 2011, and black widow drugs that are in advanced clinical trials. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - January 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Medical Technology,Everyday Science,More Science,Biology,Health Source Type: news

Gene Therapies Will Cure Many a Disease (preview)
The Science Of The Next 150 Years: 50 Years in the Future [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - January 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health,Everyday Science,Medical Technology,Biotechnology,Biotechnology,Infectious Diseases,Health,More Science Source Type: news

Beauty in a Brain Tumor?
A magnetic resonance image reveals a glioblastoma tumor ( red ) that has displaced the brain's white matter connections ( colored strands ). The color spectrum in this image gives surgeons vital pre-op information: blue strands are farthest from the growth, and red areas are closest. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - December 29, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mind & Brain,Health,Medical Technology,Everyday Science,More Science,Neuroscience,Biology,Mind Source Type: news

New Limb-Lengthening Tech May Reduce Complications for Sufferers of Crippling Deformities [Slide Show]
Screaming woke Lanz Ellingsworth. The piercing cries were loud, they were shrill -- and they were coming from his daughter's bedroom. [More] (Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology)
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - December 27, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Technology,History of Science,Society & Policy,Medical Technology,Addiction Recovery,Psychology,Ethics,Health,Everyday Science Source Type: news