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Powerful tool for genetic engineering
Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)
Viruses cannot only cause illnesses in humans, they also infect bacteria. Those protect themselves with a kind of 'immune system' which - simply put - consists ...
US orders startup to halt DNA analysis kit sales
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
US health officials have ordered a startup headed by the ex-wife of a Google co-founder to halt a service of DNA testing to determine health risks. The Food and...
Hybrid Nano-Materials Could Replace Human Tissue
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers has uncovered critical information that could help scientists understand how protein polymers interact with other self-assembling biopolym...
On-Demand Transfusions Could Yield Novel Therapeutics Delivery
Nov 20, 2013 (SPX)
Red blood cells are the most transfused blood product in battlefield trauma care. Unfortunately, they are sometimes in limited supply in a battlefield environme...
New research finds high tungsten levels double stroke risk
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
High levels of tungsten in the body could double the risk of suffering a stroke, a new study published in the open access journal PLOS ONE has found. Using data...
E-cigarettes could save millions of lives, conference told
Nov 12, 2013 (AFP)
Switching to e-cigarettes could save millions of smokers' lives, a conference on the rapidly expanding use of the devices heard Tuesday, though some delegates w...
Surprises in hunt for environmental links to cancer
Nov 11, 2013 (AFP)
A decade-long research effort to uncover the environmental causes of breast cancer by studying both lab animals and a group of healthy US girls has turned up so...
A bio patch that can regrow bone
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Iowa have created a bio patch to regenerate missing or damaged bone by putting DNA into a nano-sized particle that delivers bon...
Holograms offer hope in fight against malaria
Nov 08, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a 3D filming technique that could help inform research to stem the spread of malaria. Creating moving digital holograms of malaria spe...
'Anklebot' helps determine ankle stiffness
Oct 30, 2013 (SPX)
For most healthy bipeds, the act of walking is seldom given a second thought: One foot follows the other, and the rest of the body falls in line, supported by a...
SUBNETS Aims for Systems-Based Neurotechnology and Understanding for the Treatment of Neuropsychological Illnesses
Oct 30, 2013 (SPX)
Despite the best efforts of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to protect the health of U.S. servicemembers and veterans, the effects of neuropsych...
President vows to fix flawed Obamacare website
Oct 26, 2013 (AFP)
President Barack Obama Saturday acknowledged problems with the rollout of a key health website, adding he had people "working overtime" to fix the glitches that...
Glaxo says China drugs sales slump on bribery probe
Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline revealed on Wednesday that pharmaceuticals and vaccines sales in China tumbled 61 percent in the third quarter, as it was rock...
New 3D method used to grow miniature pancreas
Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen have successfully developed an innovative 3D method to grow miniature pancreas from proge...
Britain looks to Asia to manage 'national shame' of elderly care
Oct 18, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of elderly Britons are being ignored by society, the health minister said on Friday, saying people should look to Japan and China for less...
'Electronic blood' powers experimental computer mimicking human brain
Oct 18, 2013 (UPI)
IBM researchers in Switzerland have unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what they're calling "electronic blood." The scientists at ...
Football-shaped particles bolster the body's defense against cancer
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have succeeded in making flattened, football-shaped artificial particles that impersonate immune cells. These football-shaped parti...
3-D printed microscopic cages confine bacteria in tiny zoos for the study of infections
Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)
By caging bacteria in microscopic houses, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin are studying how communities of bacteria, such as those found in the h...
Outside View: First Obamacare, then a single-payer system
Sep 27, 2013 (UPI)
Republicans must live with Obamacare. They have few prospects for electing 60 senators needed to repeal the law and, unless they work to make it more palatable,...
Danone's Nutricia accused of bribing China doctors: media
Sep 25, 2013 (AFP)
French conglomerate Danone faced fresh bribery accusations in China on Wednesday, made by a newspaper against its healthcare subsidiary Nutricia, as authorities...
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