The moment you’re semi-sure you’re getting a cold, get some zinc lozenges, and cut the length of coughing and sneezing days by 40 per cent. That’s the result of a meta-analysis of 15 different scientific studies.
The spray-on skin gun is simply amazing technology. It literally sprays new skin cells onto burn victims to regrow skin. Old methods like skin grafts take weeks and months to heal, the skin gun only needs a little over an hour.
It’s fantastic enough that a British engineer designed his own heart textile implant in 2004 when he realised it was better than an aortic valve replacement. But even cooler is that since then, 23 other people have had them implanted.
Brenda Jensen is speaking again, after 10 years using an electronic voicebox, thanks to an ambitious larynx transplant. And before you ask – it’s her own voice, and not that of the larynx donor, even though that would be cool.
The eerie video you’re about to watch captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell – this is the first time that such an event has been caught in moving pictures.