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Motherhood makes actress Alba in tech entrepreneur
Sep 10, 2012 (AFP)
Film star Jessica Alba swapped Hollywood for Silicon Valley on Monday, introducing fellow technology entrepreneurs to her new Internet firm, inspired by motherh...
'Magic carpet' could help prevent falls
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
Plastic optical fibres, laid on the underlay of a carpet, can bend when anyone treads on it and map, in real-time, their walking patterns. Tiny electronics at t...
Experts propose 'cyber war' on cancer
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
In the face of mounting evidence that cancer cells communicate, cooperate and even engage in collective decision-making, biophysicists and cancer researchers at...
Earphones 'potentially as dangerous as noise from jet engines'
Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)
Turning the volume up too high on your headphones can damage the coating of nerve cells, leading to temporary deafness; scientists from the University of Leices...
Australians implant 'world first' bionic eye
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
Australian scientists said Thursday they had successfully implanted a "world first" bionic eye prototype, describing it as a major breakthrough for the visually...
Nanoparticles reboot blood flow in brain
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
A nanoparticle developed at Rice University and tested in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) may bring great benefits to the emergency treatmen...
New insights into why humans are more susceptible to cancer and other diseases
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
Chimpanzees rarely get cancer, or a variety of other diseases that commonly arise in humans, but their genomic DNA sequence is nearly identical to ours. So, wha...
Danger in the blood
Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)
New research may help explain why hundreds of thousands of Americans a year get sick - and tens of thousands die - after bacteria get into their blood. It also ...
Nanoparticles added to platelets double internal injury survival rate
Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)
Nanoparticles tailored to latch onto blood platelets rapidly create healthy clots and nearly double the survival rate in the vital first hour after injury, new ...
Scripps Research scientists fiyo an important molecular trigger for wouyo-healing
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have made a breakthrough in understanding a class of cells that help wounds in skin and other epithelial tissues he...
Could FastStitch device be the future of suture?
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
After a surgeon stitches up a patient's abdomen, costly complications - some life-threatening - can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Johns Ho...
Deep inside the body, tiny mechanical microscope
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
Tiny space age probes - those that can see inside single living cells - are increasingly being used to diagnose illness in hard-to-reach areas of the body. NewY...
New bacteria resistant materials discovered
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
Using state-of-the-art technology scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a new class of polymers that are resistant to bacterial attachment....
Walker's World: Why Pistorius matters
Aug 13, 2012 (UPI)
Future historians are unlikely to remember the 2012 London Olympics for the jolly jaunt through British history that opened it nor for the pop culture fest whic...
China arrests 137 over organ-trafficking ring
Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese police arrested 137 people, among them doctors, suspected of trafficking human organs in a nationwide crime ring that profited from the huge demand for ...
Detecting cancer with lasers has limited use
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
One person dies every hour from melanoma skin cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. A technique, known as photoacoustics, can f...
Scientists treat ulcers with 'spray-on skin'
Aug 03, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists said Friday they had developed a revolutionary "spray-on skin" treatment for venous leg ulcers -- a common ailment involving a shallow, open and stub...
Climate Concerns And Public Health Issues
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a potentially devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researche...
Belgian scientists develop way to detect superparasites
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Belgian scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp, Belgium made a breakthrough in bridging high tech molecular biology research on micro...
Researchers develop laser technology to fight cancer
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a technology that goes on a "seek an...
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