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Scientists in Canada say they’ve found a new way to treat potentially life-threatening alcohol intoxication—by helping people literally breathe out the alcohol in their system. Their device, which is ...

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

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In a state steeped in advanced research that spawns biomedical companies by the dozen, Apricity LLC is preposterously low-tech. Its founders—Mark Kyker and Steve Isenberg—are medical doctors, not ...