Adult Stem Cell Therapies Are Filling the Pipeline
It’s hard to believe that stems cells were only discovered in the 1990s and that, just eight years ago, all
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Health Care
The Death of the Welfare State
In 1870, Germany’s Otto von Bismarck put in place the foundations for the modern “welfare state.” Over the next 100
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Fast, Low-Cost Human Genomes Will Transform Our Lives
Nowhere has the impact of digitization been more profound than in the field of genomics. In roughly a dozen years,
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Solving the Global Water Crisis Moves Beyond the Technical Feasibility Stage
As highlighted in previous issues, the world faces a potentially catastrophic water crisis in the coming decades. For a long
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Xeno-Transplantation: The Ultimate Organ Factory
Every year, tens of thousands of people who could have been saved by organ transplants die before a donor is
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The Coming Revolution in Medical Business Models
The rate of growth in medical costs is unsustainable. The obvious solutions that are on the table, like letting bureaucrats ration
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Micro-Electromechanical Systems Become Mainstream
The Trends editors have been tracking the evolution of MEMS technology for nearly two decades. In that time, these tiny
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