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Le chirurgien Ren Xiaoping affirme avoir réalisé une greffe de tête sur un millier de souris et un singe.

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Sony’s new patent for a “smart” contact lens includes some pretty cool tech—such as the ability to record and playback images, store them internally, and even autofocus.

Selon le docteur Aubrey de Grey, l'Homme sera bientôt en mesure de réparer son propre organisme et il sera alors en mesure de vivre 1 000 ans.

L’e-santé va bouleverser la médecine, décryptage avec Dominique Noël, présidente du Festival de la Communication Santé.

Our hair and hair style is a major part of our personality so hair loss is hard to accept and deal with. Hair loss can be caused by a number of factors, including certain medications and chemotherapy, genetics, rapid weight loss, chronic stress, severe dandruff, hormonal imbalances, pregnancy, and poor scalp circulation. Furthermore, certain nutritional …

A biotech company in the U.S. has been granted ethical permission by an Institutional Review Board in the U.S. and India to use 20 brain-dead patients for what is sure to be a highly controversial study: From next year, they plan to stimulate their nervous systems in order to restart the brains.

Aging takes its toll on the brain, and the cells of the hippocampus—a brain region with circuitry crucial to learning and memory—are particularly vulnerable to changes that can lead to Alzheimer's disease or cognitiv

Sony has been awarded a patent for a smart contact lens that would be capable of recording video.

The Telegraph: A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs. A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life. Scientists will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of peptides, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas. The trial participants will have been certified dead and only kept alive through life support. They will be monitored for several months …

Chronique Innovation par Anne LEGALL diffusée le 03/05/2016 07:15 pendant La matinale d'Europe 1 : Au delà de la faisabilité de l'innovation sur laquelle planche Google, la lentille connectée pose également une multitude de questions éthiques.

Gene-editing technique CRISPR takes center stage on Stephen Colbert's late night talk show. 

Neurons created from chemically induced neural stem cells. The cells were created from skin cells that were reprogrammed into neural stem cells using a

A new type of stem cell therapy reprograms peoples' fat cells to become insulin-producing cells, which could help people with diabetes.

Santé connectée, homme augmenté, progrès techno-médical : Emmanuel Hirsch, directeur de l’Espace de réflexion éthique de la région IDF, en appelle à la réflexion et la retenue. Entretien.

Un brevet montre un dispositif surprenant qui introduit l’équivalent électronique du cristallin de l’œil humain.

Google Glass n’a pas vraiment remporté l’adhésion du public (le projet a été remisé au placard en attendant un nouveau développement). Mais le moteur de