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Silk bio-ink could help advance tissue engineering using 3-D printers

Could allow for printing tissues loaded with pharmaceuticals or for use in biomedical implants and tissue engineering

Intel invests US$50 million in quantum-computing research

Completely paralyzed man voluntarily moves his legs, UCLA scientists report

In 1998, athlete Mark Pollock became the first blind man to race to the South Pole; now “Iron ElectriRx” man is making history again — in a robotic exoskeleton

First US patients treated with noninvasive focused ultrasound for Parkinson’s disease

Life expectancy climbs worldwide but people spend more years living with illness and disability

Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990

Magnetic fields provide a lower-power, more secure wireless body network

Lack of sleep connected to catching a cold, new research confirms

If you sleep six hours a night or less, you are 4 times more likely to catch a cold

World’s most powerful, largest digital camera will image 37 billion stars and galaxies

3.2-gigapixel digital camera will take digital images of the entire visible southern sky every few nights, producing 15 Terabytes of data

A high-efficiency, sustainable process using solar and carbon dioxide to produce methane for natural gas

Replaces fossil fuel with solar and uses C02 instead of generating it

Older people in Germany and England getting smarter, but not fitter

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