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Surgeon in Rome Performs Pioneering Remote Operation on Patient in Beijing

A surgeon sits in a conference hall in Rome, gently moving his hands over a console; on the other side of the world, in a Beijing operating room he has never stepped into, robotic arms mirror his every motion inside a man’s body. The distance between them is more than 8,000 kilometers, yet for the …

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Student Develops AI That Detects Autism And ADHD Using Retinal Photos

A teenager with no formal programming background has developed an artificial intelligence system that could one day change how autism and ADHD are identified. What began as a high school research project has grown into an award-winning proof of concept that uses something as ordinary as a photograph of the eye to detect patterns linked …

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Woman With Rare ‘Superpower’ Who Smelled Husband’s Disease 12 Years Early is Now Helping Scientists Develop Test

What if your nose could detect what even the most advanced medical tests miss? Imagine walking into a room and sensing not just a scent but a silent alarm from the body, a signal of something deeply wrong, long before symptoms ever appear. That’s exactly what happened to Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Scotland, …

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Breakthrough Cancer Research Shows Promise for mRNA Vaccine Technology

On a quiet afternoon in early March 2020, Vita Sara Blechner was at home in Oceanside, New York when a sudden, sharp pain spread across her back. At first, it felt like something minor. Maybe acid reflux, maybe stress. But within hours, that discomfort turned into something far more serious. At the hospital, scans revealed …

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