Pavithra Mohan
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This 3D-Printed Brain Is A Squishy Playground For Newbie Neurosurgeons
Brain surgery is intricate, high-stakes work. So mastering it on a real, live patient, with an attending physician breathing down your neck and watching your every move, certainly can’t be easy. Enter the 3D-printing industry, which has already played a major role in medicine, from churning out noses and eyeballs and blood vessels to developing…
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6 Mythological Barriers To Keep Monsters At Bay
Whether or not you bought into all the hoopla, one thing’s for sure: the island to which ABC’s series Lost transported us for six years was one strange place. A good chunk of its mystique, however, could be explained by a powerful electromagnetic force field that acted as its invisibility cloak and sent the island’s…
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Scientists Get Mice Drunk To Explain Why Binge Drinking Breaks Bones
It’s a well-known thing amongst doctors that heavy drinkers have a mysterious propensity for breaking their bones — and not just because they may trip over their own feet in an inebriated stupor. Medical researchers from Loyola University in Chicago wanted to get to the bottom of the issue, and they addressed the question the…
