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Blood tests are a luxury that as Americans we may take for granted. However, doing blood work is an extremely complicated procedure with many steps and very expensive machinery. As a result, less fortunate countries cannot have the luxury of these devices and many people die from it. Anemia is a condition that is caused [...]

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If I told you to close your eyes and picture a doctor, I’m pretty sure you’d imagine a person male or female with a stethoscope. It is the cliché image we have of doctors. But pretty soon that could be changing. Instead of a stethoscope around the doctor’s neck, this new image places a smartphone in the doctor’s [...]

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Scientists at Cambridge University are making artificial bones for research. It is a very long and repetitive job. It is usually done by very expensive robots. The problem is that they are very expensive.  So some very creative and clever scientists actually built a couple of robots out of LEGO. The scientists use these bones for [...]

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Scientists have created a fast acting pathogen detector which will help find anyone who is carrying around anthrax, plagues, and small pox. This sensor will be useful to help detect terrorists who are trying to sneak in chemical weapons. This device uses altered cells and anti-bodies to search and find the pathogen. Once it is [...]

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Scientists have found a new way to create sight for the blind by using a microchip resembling, encoder transducer, which replicates the job of the retina. The retina is the part of the eye that first takes in what your seeing. It is located at the front of the eye and than the prints are [...]

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Would you like to live on the moon? How about on Mars? Scientists have been testing the effects of living in these conditions by testing flies. They use magnets to make the fruit flies weightless and balance out Earth’s gravity. It is not Quite the same as zero gravity in space but it is pretty close [...]

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