(Natural News) Localized cooling of the heart before and after angioplasty may help mitigate the risk of further cardiovascular damage during a heart attack, a recent study carried out by Netherlands-based cardiologists revealed. According to experts, heart attack patients were at an increased risk of cardiovascular muscle death. Cardiologists prevented this by performing angioplasty procedure, where the constricted […]

(Natural News) Sometimes, real life is a lot stranger than science fiction – and it’s even scarier. Take, for instance, Cryptococcus gattii – a fungus that lives in soil and is typically found in tropical and subtropical regions. However, anything pleasant about the fungus stops there, as a study in Nature Communications revealed that it can “communicate” with each […]

(Natural News) Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was, at one time, on top of the world: With her (now disproven) new blood testing tech, she was heralded as a “female Steve Jobs” and the mainstream media simply couldn’t get enough of their new feminist-approved icon. It’s got to be a long, hard fall from such a […]

(Natural News) CRISPR-Cas9 is a budding technology, with proponents singing its praises for the last few years. But it turns out this “promising” advancement comes with some unintended side effects – like the potential to cause cancer in a whole generation of humans (if not more). It appears the more we learn about CRISPR, the […]

(Natural News) Living tissue can heal over time after an injury. This process is called regeneration, and some animals can regenerate certain body parts in a manner that far surpasses our own. Some injuries are severe enough, such as spinal cord injury, that the damaged nerves cannot be rebuilt. On the other hand, some animals have […]

(Natural News) If you suffered from one of the most common forms of blindness, what would you give to be able to cure it? That’s a question that might be up for discussion as a group of U.K. researchers has reportedly developed a potential fix for one common cause of blindness. And what’s more, it could […]

(Natural News) Health professionals will one day be able to hunt down the tiniest of chemicals and pathogens, thanks to a new sensor developed by Chinese researchers. According to an article on ScienceDaily, the sensor is small and flexible enough to fit inside small spaces, such as blood vessels. Furthermore, its sensitivity allows it to […]

(Natural News) When scientists started genetically modifying plants, some observers worried that it would just be a matter of time before they tried the same thing on humans… and it looks like that nightmare scenario is finally about to become reality. Regulators have given plans to trial DNA splicing therapy their stamp of approval, allowing […]

(Natural News) An MIT research team has created a replica of the human body that can fit on a chip. According to an article on MIT Technology Review, this “body on a chip” can be used to evaluate new drugs for potential side effects before human testing. The new “physiome on a chip” system is […]

(Natural News) Thanks to an extraordinary medical procedure, a man is on the road to recovering from a fractured tibia with a bone graft created from his own fat cells. This isn’t a work of science fiction; it’s the result of efforts made by Bonus BioGroup, an Israel-based biomedical company. According to the TimesOfIsrael.com, a […]