Cool Stuff That's Coming

The 2015 study achieved a 90 percent accuracy rate in correctly identifying the two cancers, and a recently completed, broader study has also proven successful.

The researchers believe their findings could have implications for future pharmaceutical development for humans.

Scientists are trying to use modified salmonella, a bacteria that typically causes food poisoning, to treat a deadly form of brain cancer.

"One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that happens to us, not something we create." Michael Anissimov

How to build organs from scratch

The option of receiving a skin-cancer diagnosis by smartphone could save lives, say researchers.

If a new bioprinter developed in Spain lives up to the hype, skin grafts taken from a person’s own body may become a thing of the past.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts.

Scientists have developed a material that can mimic cartilage and potentially encourage it to re-grow.