The “New & Interesting” series is a biweekly compilation of select research findings, news articles, and random tidbits in bullet-point format. The entries are highly abbreviated, but provide links to the original articles or abstracts if you desire to read further.

General Articles

• Most powerful 9.4-Tesla MRI is stronger than the Large Hadron Collider (Wired)

• A blind patient regained sight via a tooth implanation into her eye. The procedure, a modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (MOOKP), was performed at the University of Miami School of Medicine and is the first done in the United States. (U Miami)

• DARPA-funded study at Duke University to detect viral infections even before the development of symptoms (Duke Health)

• Smoking bans cut incidence of heart attacks by as much as 36% after 3 years (Reuters)