Unlocking the Skin’s Natural Healing Power

Unlocking the Skin’s Natural Healing Power

By Stacy Kish – Yale School of Medicine – Our skin protects us from everyday mechanical stresses, like friction, cuts, and impacts. A key part of this function—standing as a bulwark against the outside world—is the skin’s amazing ability to regenerate and...
Blindness cured with ‘revolutionary’ bionic chip

Blindness cured with ‘revolutionary’ bionic chip

By Sarah Knapton – The Telegraph – Blind patients can read and recognise faces again with a “revolutionary bionic chip” that is said to signal a “new era” for artificial vision. The implant is an ultra-thin wireless microchip, measuring 2mm by 2mm, which...