Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), reflects on how technology might affect the future use of sign languages.

I have always thought that sex ed and statistics should be the same course. There's no better way to show how vital stats is to your every day life than to look at statistics. Probabilities are so easy to misunderstand, and there are a...

In a first-of-its-kind operation in the United States, doctors at Duke University hospital implanted a bioengineered vein into the arm of a patient on June 5. The operation is the first U.S. trial of human-cell based vein implant. The...

A ventricular assist system, or VAD, is a implantable device that is used to help a failing heart pump blood through the body, often while the patient is awaiting a heart transplant. It consists of a control system and an energy supply...

An 83-year-old woman's infected jawbone has been successfully replaced with an artificial 3D-printed titanium jawbone in a world first. The 3D-printing technology developed by LayerWise NV of Belgium used additive laser melting in which...

This week on the podcast, Aaron is talking about the flu, Idaho's extra-legal insurance experiment, and Medicaid work requirements. He's also going to answer a bunch of your questions, including finally knowing whether you can catch...

LambdaVision, Inc., a small business funded by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research program, has designed a retinal implant to help restore vision in people who have retinitis pigmentosa or...

Is it a difficult surgery? How many children in America can hear because of the implant?<br/>
Cochlear Implants, Part 2

After his company Neuralink released a video of a monkey playing pong via an implant in its brain last week, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that it may be able to move to initial human trials later this year.<br/>

Some people who are deaf use assistive technology such as hearing aids or cochlear implants to help them hear. Others feel that using assistive technology impacts a deaf person’s identity. One teenager who was born deaf has had cochlear...

Patients whose spinal columns had been severed in accidents can now walk again, thanks to an amazing medical invention.

After spending much of her life blind, Kathy Blake is seeing a glimmer of hope, thanks to an artificial retina developed by a company called Second Sight and the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles. A camera is built into a pair of...

In episode 70, Jordan and Charlie discuss 3-D printable ink that produces a synthetic bone implant that rapidly induces bone regeneration and growth. A Northwestern University research team has developed a hyperelastic "bone" material,...

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Researchers aim to give DBS patients more control, fewer side effects



This University of Washington research is advancing deep brain stimulation, or DBS, which is used to treat people with essential tremor, Parkinson's...

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Three-year-old Grayson Clamp has been given the gift of hearing with a revolutionary auditory brainstem implant.

The implant is an electronic device that stimulates nerves in the brain, allowing the child to process...

How does the ear work? Where are the smallest bones in the human body? How does the implant work? <br/>
Cochlear Implants, Part 3

LambdaVision, Inc. a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research program, has designed a retinal implant to help restore vision in people who have retinitis pigmentosa or age-related...

A 72-year-old woman in Hawaii, who was blinded by a hereditary eye disease two years ago, received a bionic eye implant last week that will partially restore her vision. She is the first person in Asia-Pacific to receive a bionic eye...