Health & Medicine
Facebook aims to help people write with their ‘brainwaves’
21 Apr 2017
‘We are just getting started,’ Regina Dugan, head of Facebook’s Building 8 team, said. ‘We have a goal of creating a system capable of typing 100 words-per-minute straight from your brain’
Toyota’s robotic leg helps disabled people walk
17 Apr 2017
Japanese carmaker Toyota has designed a robotic leg to help people who have been paralysed on one side of their body
High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet
17 Apr 2017
3-D-printed patch can help mend a 'broken' heart
15 Apr 2017
23andMe gets FDA nod to sell genetic tests directly to consumers
07 Apr 2017
For the first time the FDA has allowed a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, which would tell people if they were at risk of developing conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s