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Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Tufts University have engineered tiny living constructs from frog ...

Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory harnessed bottom-up Soldier innovation to develop an experimental 3D-printed small unmanned ...

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

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Much software may get commoditized away over the next 24 months, pushing value toward hardware and startups operating in the physical world.