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Singapore expertise pioneers quick and scarless surgeryNanyang, Sinpapore (SPX) Jul 11, 2011 Patients with gastric tumours in their stomach will no longer have to suffer an eight-hour long surgery, but instead can look forward to a short day surgery which last a few minutes to an hour without the need for hospitalisation. This new procedure - the world's first flexible endoscopy robotic surgery in the stomach - was successfully performed on patients suffering from gastric tumours in India. The procedure was performed on a total of three patients, one patient per day from 1 to 3 July ... read more |
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  Two injured in second China escalator accident At least two people were injured in an escalator accident at a subway station in Shenzhen in China, state media said Monday, days after a 13-year-old boy died in a similar accident in Beijing. ... more | .. |
  India-EU deal won't hurt flow of AIDS drugs: UN India has pledged not to curb its output of life-saving generic HIV/AIDS drugs in exchange for a free-trade deal with the European Union, a leading advocate for action on AIDS has said. ... more | .. |
  Robotic safe zones without protective barriers The modern working world is no longer conceivable without robots. They assist humans in manufacturing, laboratories or medicine. In the future, a new projection and camera-based system will prevent ... more | .. |
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  Frog feet could solve a sticky problem Tree frogs have specially adapted self-cleaning feet which could have practical applications for the medical industry. "Tree frog feet may provide a design for self-cleaning sticky surfaces, w ... more | .. |
 Swazis question rangers' special powers in poaching battle A teenage rhino calf died of stress and hunger last week in Swaziland after poachers slaughtered its mother, the first rhino killed in the tiny kingdom in two decades. ... more | .. |
 Passer-by saves China toddler in 10-storey fall A two-year-old Chinese girl survived a fall from a 10th-floor window thanks to a passer-by who raced to catch the toddler, state media reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
  248 women report being raped by soldiers in DR Congo in June Some 248 women said they were raped by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Sud-Kivu province last month, local medical reports showed Monday, in a region the UN has called the world's "rape capital." ... more |
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New MachLab rocket test site launches UK into next phase of space engineering
Ukraine's anti-graft body says new bill restores independence
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  Arms to Libya were for self-defence: France France insisted Friday that weapons it supplied to rebels fighting Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi were for "self-defence" in line with a UN resolution, after Russia and others voiced concern. ... more | .. |
  Moving microscopic vision into another new dimension Scientists who pioneered a revolutionary 3-D microscope technique are now describing an extension of that technology into a new dimension that promises sweeping applications in medicine, biological ... more | .. |
  Lightning strike kills 18 children in Uganda A lightning strike at a primary school in western Uganda killed 18 students and injured 50, Ugandan police said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Branch offices: New family of gold-based nanoparticles could serve as biomedical 'testbed' Gold nanoparticles are becoming the ... well ... gold standard for medical-use nanoparticles. A new paper* by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Natio ... more |
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  Astronomers Reach For The Stars To Discover New Cancer Therapy Astronomers' research on celestial bodies may have an impact on the human body. Ohio State University astronomers are working with medical physicists and radiation oncologists to develop a potential ... more | .. |
  Space research gives birth to new ultrasound tools for health care The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound. Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute ... more | .. |
  Thousands stranded in Belgian rail havoc Thousands of travelers were stranded at Belgian train stations Monday in stifling heat, causing around 10 people to be hospitalised as a technical glitch disrupted service, officials said. ... more | .. |
  New curation tool a boon for genetic biologists With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information. The project was a coll ... more |
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Australia's mammal megafauna face long-term decline from extinctions and invasive species
Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
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  Researchers Break Light-Matter Coupling Strength Limit in Nanoscale Semiconductors New engineering research at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates that polaritons have increased coupling strength when confined to nanoscale semiconductors. This represents a promising advanc ... more | .. |
  Using living cells as an invisibility cloak The quest for better ways of encapsulating medicine so that it can reach diseased parts of the body has led scientists to harness - for the first time - living human cells to produce natural capsule ... more | .. |
  First self-powered device with wireless data transmission Scientists are reporting development of the first self-powered nano-device that can transmit data wirelessly over long distances. In a study in ACS's journal Nano Letters, they say it proves t ... more | .. |
  Jailed Iran brothers win global health prize Two Iranian doctors who were jailed three years ago for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government were awarded a global health prize on Thursday for their efforts to treat patients with HIV. ... more |
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  Banning federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research would derail related work Banning federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research would have "disastrous consequences" on the study of a promising and increasingly popular new stem cell type that is not derived from h ... more | .. |
  Japan astronaut tweets about space sickness Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa has tweeted from the International Space Station that he suffers from travel sickness in space. ... more | .. |
  Bacteria living on old-growth trees may help forests grow Biology researchers discover that bacteria living in mosses on tree branches twice as effective at 'fixing' nitrogen as those on the ground A new study by Dr. Zoe Lindo, a post-doctoral fellow ... more | .. |
 Genetic study indicates slower evolution Thirty mutations are passed from each parent to their child, a finding that affects evolution and medical research, University of Montreal researchers found. ... more |
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