Make up your mind, appendix! Studies show that the organ, often more trouble than it's worth, has evolved independently in mammals over and over again.
Pseudo-stool created in a robotic gut can replace human fecal matter used to correct imbalances in bacterial colonies in patients left devastated by an infection.
Taylor Binns never planned to experience a simple delight of the world again: seeing it. The world was slowly going black, and time was running out. So he took his only options: a new procedure using stem cells. What we all take for granted became his gift: he could see again.
Acoustic levitation is pretty damn cool, and a useful scientific tool to boot. Researchers use the process to test various drugs and in which state — crystalline or soluble — they'd be most effective.
Medical technology is advancing rapidly thanks to computers, but it's taking a while for all that nifty computerized medicine to make its way inside our bodies. Humans aren't generally compatible with electronics, but that may change with the invention of...