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Industrial Media Unboxing Video

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

August 7, 2025

Harvard Team's Wearable Robot Helps Stroke, ALS Patients Use Their Arms

August 21, 2025

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At Least 600 CDC Employees Are Getting Final Termination Notices, Union Says

August 21, 2025

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Sartorius, Nanotein Partner to Advance Cell Therapy Manufacturing

August 20, 2025

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

IEN Unboxed is a new show in which our editors unbox new tools on the market and discuss their features.

August 7, 2025

This image from video provided by the Newcastle Fertility Centre shows a nuclear genome from an egg carrying a mitochondrial DNA mutation being inserted into an egg donated by an unaffected woman.

Healthy Babies Born After Scientists Used DNA to Avoid Genetic Disease

Using this method means the embryo has DNA from three people.

July 17, 2025

A dentist cleans the teeth of a child in the public health department’s mobile dental clinic visiting Starmount Elementary school in Charlotte, N.C., on March 20, 2025.

Deep Cuts Erode the Foundations of U.S. Public Health System

The Trump administration is pulling $11 billion of federal support and eliminating 20,000 jobs.

June 2, 2025

This photo provided by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia shows KJ Muldoon after a follow up dose of an experimental gene editing treatment at the hospital in April 2025.

Gene Editing Helped a Desperately Ill Baby Thrive

Scientists say it could someday treat millions.

May 15, 2025

This photo provided by Emily’s Entourage in April 2025 shows Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, who has cystic fibrosis caused by a rare genetic mutation, during a trip to Maine.

Genetic Medicine Can Leave People with Rare Mutations Behind

But there's new hope.

April 28, 2025

Cesar Acevedo, left, holds his infant son, Adriel Acevedo, as as nurse Tracey McElroy, right, prepares to give him a vaccination that included a polio dose at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025.

Measles Exploded in Texas After Stagnant Vaccine Funding

New cuts threaten the same across the U.S.

April 14, 2025

In this photo provided by researchers researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley, a UCSF clinical research coordinator connects a neural data port into the head of Ann, a participant in a study on speech neuroprostheses, in El Cerrito, Calif., on Monday, May 22, 2023.

Stroke Survivor Speaks Again with Help from an Experimental Brain-Computer Implant

It "converts her intent to speak into fluent sentences" in real time.

March 31, 2025

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Trump Pulling Back Billions in COVID Funding from Local Health Departments

Officials said the money was largely used for COVID-19 testing, vaccination and global projects.

March 26, 2025

A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas.

Measles Is Popping Up in the U.S.

Here's how to avoid one of the world's most contagious viruses.

March 7, 2025

This microscope photo provided by the McLean Hospital's Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center in January 2024 shows cells in the caudate nucleus structure of the brain in a person with Huntington's disease.

Surprise Finding Sheds Light on What Causes Huntington's Disease

Researchers hope their findings can help scientists come up with ways to delay or prevent the incurable condition.

January 17, 2025

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a worker of the China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) company during a round of COVID-19 tests in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, Aug. 5, 2021.

5 Things We Know and Still Don't Know about COVID, 5 Years After it Appeared

The virus is still with us, though humanity has built up immunity through vaccinations and infections.

January 6, 2025

A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago.

Maternal Mortality Review Panels are in the Spotlight

Here's what they actually do.

December 5, 2024

This microscope image provided by Osaka University and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in October 2024, shows the fertilization of a mouse egg marked in red and green. DNA is marked in blue, showing in the egg at the top and in a sperm cell at the bottom left.

Scientists Show How Sperm and Egg Come Together Like a Key in a Lock

The work provides targets for the development of male contraceptives in particular.

October 18, 2024

Areana Coles receives an ultrasound during a prenatal visit at the Oklahoma State University obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Tulsa, Okla., on Tuesday, July 16, 2024.

America is Trying to Fix its Maternal Mortality Crisis

It's setting up federal, state and local programs.

September 4, 2024

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Past COVID Infections May Help Protect Against Certain Colds

Could it lead to better vaccines?

June 13, 2024