When someone has suffered a major nerve injury, there are two common treatments: performing a nerve graft, or utilizing a conduit to guide the regrowth of the injured nerve. While both approaches have their drawbacks, a new variation on the latter may succeed where they fail. First of all, severed nerves are able to grow back together on their own. […]

The fitness world constantly chases innovative ways to have you looking and feeling your best. From the hula hoop to the Shake Weight, the fitness industry is an ever-changing beast that clones itself year after year, with minor alterations purporting to be “game-changers” for your health. Take the exercise bike. Since the word “fitness” became ubiquitous with personal health, the […]

Your body is home to trillions of bacteria – but before you go reaching for the soap, it’s important to remember that many of them are good for you. Not only do they assist in vital bodily functions, but they can help keep bad bugs at bay. Now, researchers at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) in Portugal and Stanford in […]

In a trailblazing move, Quorn, the meatless food manufacturer headquartered in the U.K., is now leveraging carbon labeling on more than half its product line. Carbon labeling delineates where greenhouse gas emissions are associated with production, manufacture, distribution and transport of a particular consumer product as it is brought to market. The carbon label serves to inform consumers of an […]

In search of advanced medical devices that can be ingested by the human body and don’t need to be surgically removed after, scientists at MIT have developed a new technology that would instead break them down by exposure to certain kinds of light. The research could help avoid the need for invasive endoscopic surgeries, with patients needing only to swallow […]

Although many people routinely pinch their belly in order to see how fat they’re getting, that’s really only a measure of their subcutaneous “under the skin” fat. The Bello device goes deeper, using light to measure visceral fat. While subcutaneous fat is located directly beneath the skin and over top of the abdominal muscles, visceral fat is situated behind those […]

Maintaining perfect posture is one of the main ingredients in a strong core, but if you slouch all the time, it can be hard to keep your back straight all day long. What you need is a gentle reminder to sit and stand straight, and the UPRIGHT GO 2 can help for $89. UPRIGHT GO 2 is a wearable device […]

As the new year kicked off, a never-before-seen virus began to spread across China. Raised on a steady diet of viral apocalyptic fiction, many in the West quickly jumped on social media to declare the end of the world. So what do we know so far about this mystery virus? And how dangerous is the looming epidemic? What is a […]

A team from China has created an environmentally-friendly household cleaning appliance that can sanitize and disinfect your home, and even fruit and vegetables, by using water and salt. Dubbed Egret, the easy-to-use home appliance is centered around a patented technology that creates electrolyzed water to combat germs, bacteria, odors and viruses. “Egret works by harnessing the awesome power of electrolyzed […]

Currently, in order to determine if someone has a urinary tract infection, a sample of their urine has to be sent off to a lab – it typically takes several days to get results. Now, however, scientists have created a smartphone-enabled system that works in less than 25 minutes. Developed by a team at Britain’s University of Bath, the setup […]