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Diaper compound may expand power of microscopes
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
Pour, mix, set, add water and voila: highly detailed images of the inside of cells. A study, partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, showed that ...
Microcapsules have potential to repair damage caused by osteoarthritis
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
A new 'microcapsule' treatment delivery method developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) could reduce inflammation in cartilage affecte...
Major limitations found with nanotubes in blood facing medical devices
Jan 22, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Trinity College Dublin, have made an important discovery about the safety issues of using ca...
Australian boy, 4, gets 'world first' artificial pancreas
Jan 22, 2015 (AFP)
A four-year-old Australian boy has been fitted with an artificial pancreas in what researchers said was a world first treatment for managing type 1 diabetes. Xa...
Wearable sensor clears path to long-term EKG, EMG monitoring
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new, wearable sensor that uses silver nanowires to monitor electrophysiological signals, such ...
Pythagoras theorem shows when a patient has turned a corner
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
A medical researcher at the University of Warwick has found the 2,500 year-old Pythagoras theorem could be the most effective way to identify the point at which...
DNA 'glue' could someday be used to build tissues, organs
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
DNA molecules provide the "source code" for life in humans, plants, animals and some microbes. But now researchers report an initial study showing that the stra...
Newly discovered antibiotic kills pathogens without resistance
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
For years, pathogens' resistance to antibiotics has put them one step ahead of researchers, which is causing a public health crisis, according to University Dis...
Flexible, biocompatible implant slips into the spinal cord
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
EPFL scientists have managed to get rats walking on their own again using a combination of electrical and chemical stimulation. But applying this method to huma...
Researchers develop soil-derived antibiotic
Jan 07, 2015 (UPI)
An international team of scientists claim to have created one of the most powerful antibiotic drugs in decades, capable of killing the microorganisms that cause...
'Flying carpet' uses graphene to deliver one-two punch
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as "flying carpets" to deliver two anticancer drugs s...
DNA origami could lead to nano 'transformers' for biomedical applications
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
If the new nano-machines built at The Ohio State University look familiar, it's because they were designed with full-size mechanical parts such as hinges and pi...
Nanotech guides cancer surgery; also kills remaining malignant cells
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new way to selectively insert compounds into cancer cells - a system that will help surgeons identify ma...
Predicting superbugs' countermoves to new drugs
Jan 05, 2015 (SPX)
With drug-resistant bacteria on the rise, even common infections that were easily controlled for decades - such as pneumonia or urinary tract infections - are p...
3-D culture system for pancreatic cancer could change therapeutic approaches
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, with only 6 percent of patients surviving five years after diagnosis. Today, Cold Spring Harbor Lab...
Cancer often due to bad luck, not genes or environment
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
Cancer is often caused by the "bad luck" of random mutations that arise when cells divide, not family history or environmental causes, US researchers said Thurs...
Scientists zero in on how lung cancer spreads
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
UK scientists have taken microscopic images revealing that the protein ties tethering cells together are severed in lung cancer cells - meaning they can break l...
New technology makes tissues, someday maybe organs
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
A new instrument could someday build replacement human organs the way electronics are assembled today: with precise picking and placing of parts. In this case, ...
Lens-free microscope can detect cancer at the cellular level
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
UCLA researchers have developed a lens-free microscope that can be used to detect the presence of cancer or other cell-level abnormalities with the same accurac...
New class of synthetic molecules mimics antibodies
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
A Yale University lab has crafted the first synthetic molecules that have both the targeting and response functions of antibodies. The new molecules - synthetic...
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