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🤰 New AI Tool Generates 3D Scan of the Fetus Ultrasound in pregnancy provides only basic details about fetal development. Even MRI often can't deliver accurate measurements: the fetus is typically curled up and constant…

🧬 Scientists Test Male Birth Control Pills U.S. researchers have successfully completed the first human trial of YCT-529, a non-hormonal drug that temporarily stops sperm production without affecting testosterone. "Stud…

🌿 AI Creates Medicines From Ancient Plants According to the WHO, nearly half of all medicines (including aspirin and morphine) are based on molecules found in nature. However, 99.9% of the chemical composition of plants…

🤕 AI Detects Signs of Consciousness in Coma Patients That Doctors Often Miss Up to a quarter of coma patients understand speech but can't show it. Doctors usually try simple commands, such as "open your eyes" or "smile,…

💬 AI Learned to "Read" Thoughts Scientists from Stanford have, for the first time, used AI to decipher what people were thinking and saying in their heads. The experiment's four participants, who had lost the ability to…

🧂 Man Suffers Psychosis After AI-Prescribed "Diet" A 60-year-old American man was recently admitted to a psychiatric ward after taking sodium bromide for three months following the advice of ChatGPT as a "healthier" alt…

🌿 VR As a Pain Reliever Virtual reality nature scenes could help with chronic pain, according to researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK. In the experiment, 30 healthy volunteers had their forearms stimulated…

🫡 A Surgical Robot Just Performed an Operation Completely Autonomously The SRT-H robot, developed at Johns Hopkins University, has completed a key part of a gallbladder removal procedure entirely on its own without any…

🧲 Magnetic Microbots Cure Rabbit Sinus Infections Chinese researchers have developed microscopic robots that clear nasal sinuses by removing pus and bacteria, with no antibiotics involved. Each microbot is a tiny sphere…

🦾 Scientists Created an AI Hand That "Thinks" for Itself Researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada have developed a prosthetic hand with artificial intelligence that autonomously recognizes and grasps…

🪩 A New Nanotech Eye Implant Restores Vision—and Lets You See in the Dark Scientists at Fudan University in China have developed a retinal implant that not only restores sight but also enables animals to perceive near-i…

🤱 "Custom Baby Selection": U.S. Company Lets Parents Pick Their Future Child's IQ and Appearance Nucleus Genomics has launched Embryo, a service that offers genetic analysis of embryos during in vitro fertilization (IVF…

💊 AI Designs Better Drug Candidates—Far More Efficiently Than Traditional Methods Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of Pennsylvania have developed an AI model called DiffSMol, which designs new dru…

🤩 How to Use AI Properly for Medical Purposes? With the rise of the internet, many of us have developed the habit of googling our symptoms. There's even a name for this obsessive tendency to self-diagnose online—cyberch…

💬 AI Helps Kids With Autism Talk To Their Parents Researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Naver AI Lab developed an app called AACessTalk that helps parents communicate with minimally ver…

🏥 China Is Building the First Fully AI-Powered Hospital Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research has launched a hospital project that would use AI agents to support doctors. MedAgent-Zero, an AI trained…

The Magic of Morning Coffee: How Does Caffeine Wake Up Our Brain? ☕️ For many of us, the morning wouldn’t be complete without a cup of aromatic coffee. It’s more than just a pleasant taste—it has a remarkable ability to…

📞 inTouch: An AI That Calls Your Parents Every Day inTouch—An AI service from a Czech startup can call your relatives for you for $29.90 a month. The founder and CEO of inTouch, financier Vassili le Moigne, is originall…

🚺 Essence: AI Assistant for Women Hormones greatly influence a woman's health, mood, and productivity. The hormonal balance naturally fluctuates throughout the different phases of the menstrual cycle. The AI-powered Ess…

💬 A New Algorithm Decodes Thoughts into Speech in Near Real-Time Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, tested their technology on Ann, the patient, who has been paralyzed for almost 20 years after…

🤩 New AI Model Diagnoses Parkinson's Disease with 96% Accuracy Nearly 12 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease. While the incidence of Parkinson's rises significantly after the age of 60, an estimated…

🦠 The Largest Project Ever to Study Viruses There are 300-400 trillion viruses living inside us—not all of them are dangerous. However, only a tiny fraction of all viruses in the human body, which make up the so-called…

🦾 A Paralyzed Man Learned to Mind-Control a Robotic Hand Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, have created an AI-powered brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables a person who has been paralyz…

🚼 AI Will Help Couples Conceive with IVF According to WHO, one in six couples in the world struggle with infertility. IVF (in vitro fertilization) is today the most popular among the assisted reproductive technologies t…

🤩 Neko Health: Full-Body AI Scan in Just One Hour Stockholm-based startup Neko Health has raised $260M in a new funding round, bringing its valuation to $1.8B. The company was founded by Spotify creator Daniel Ek and Hj…

🤩 EvieAI, a medical chatbot that won't mislead you AI-generated responses frequently lack credibility due to their tendency to "hallucinate." However, this flaw has been addressed in the new medical chatbot, EvieAI, cre…

💤 AI-Powered Cradle Helps Babies Sleep Better The Cradlewise crib powered by artificial intelligence helps babies (and their parents) sleep much better. The "smart crib" has won numerous awards, including the Best Innov…