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Scientists create algorithm to help kidney transplants
Carnegie Mellon professors have come up with an algorithm that matches kidney donors and recipients, making it easier for needy patients to find compatible donors.
How Things Work: Optical tweezers
Optical tweezers, consisting of only laser beams, are able to move miniscule objects like living cells and viruses.
Health Talk: Narcolepsy
Learn about narcolepsy, a disorder in which the patient can fall asleep anywhere, at anytime.
Sci/Tech briefs
Scientists have discovered the leftovers of an asteroid in the Sudan desert.
Health Line
Scientists have developed pluripotent cells from skin cells. These cells could be used to develop any type of tissue.