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Team discovers how bacteria resist a 'Trojan horse' antibiotic
Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)
A new study describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a common "house...
Twitter health-reporting app sought
Mar 20, 2012 (UPI)
U.S federal officials have announced a contest for developers to design Web-based applications that use Twitter to track health trends in real time. The U.S. De...
Depression: Evolutionary byproduct of the ability to fight infection?
Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)
Depression is common enough - afflicting one in ten adults in the United States - that it seems the possibility of depression must be "hard-wired" into our brai...
Heart-powered pacemaker could one day eliminate battery-replacement surgery
Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)
A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves. Engineering researchers at the University of Michi...
Doctor looks to China for spinal injury 'cure'
Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)
One of the world's leading researchers into spinal cord injuries says China could hold the key to a cure that he has been searching for since he met late actor ...
Improving performance and user comfort of the Tongue drive system
Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)
The Tongue Drive System is getting less conspicuous and more capable. Tongue Drive is a wireless device that enables people with high-level spinal cord injuries...
Rainforest plant combats multi-resistant bacterial strains
Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)
Aggressive infections in hospitals are an increasing health problem worldwide. The development of bacterial resistance is alarming. Now a young Danish scientist...
Genetic studies of special mice could lead to rapid human health advances
Feb 27, 2012 (SPX)
Genetic information provided by a large group of specially-designed mice could pave the way to faster human health discoveries and transform the ways people bat...
Harvard's Wyss Institute develops DNA nanorobot to trigger targeted therapeutic responses
Feb 24, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potential...
Researchers make living model of brain tumor
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
Brown University scientists have created the first three-dimensional living tissue model, complete with surrounding blood vessels, to analyze the effectiveness ...
High population density is greatest risk factor for water-linked diseases
Feb 17, 2012 (SPX)
Water-associated infectious disease outbreaks are more likely to occur in areas where a region's population density is growing, according to a new global analys...
Pharmaceuticals from crab shells
Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)
Usually, mould fungi are nothing to cheer about - but now they can be used as "chemical factories". Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have succe...
Will bubble-powered microrockets zoom through the human stomach?
Feb 14, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor - which they term a "microrocket" - that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human sto...
A silver bullet to beat cancer?
Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)
The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug...
US issues guidelines to avoid heparin contamination
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
Four years after US drug-maker Baxter International's blood thinner heparin was contaminated in China, causing dozens of deaths, US regulators on Friday issued ...
The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics
Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)
Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new...
New lung cancer test predicts survival
Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)
In the two largest clinical studies ever conducted on the molecular genetics of lung cancer, an international team led by scientists at the University of Califo...
Smallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair
Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)
When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit l...
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