Nikola Tesla: 170 Years of Visionary Ideas

“Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla’s work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be...

World First: Mitochondria From a Woman’s Leg Were Injected Into Her Eyes

When the batteries die in your TV remote, you might start rummaging around your desk clock for a replacement. That doesn’t tend to be how we think about the human body. But scientists are beginning to...

Predictive tools can confuse rare mutations with dangerous ones

When a patient’s DNA is read, it is compared with a reference version of the human genome. This allows geneticists and rare disease experts to look at a list of places where the patient’s DNA...