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China arrests 137 over organ-trafficking ringBeijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2012 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 transplants, authorities said. In a sting operation beginning in late July, police pounced across 18 provinces and regions and "rescued" 127 people who had agreed to donate organs to illicit traders, the Ministry of Public Security said. Eighteen doctors were among those detained, suspected of performing illegal transplant operations, the ... read more |
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  Boston University researchers expand synthetic biology's toolkit Through the assembly of genetic components into "circuits" that perform logical operations in living cells, synthetic biologists aim to artificially empower cells to solve critical problems in medic ... more | .. |
  Vaccine research shows vigilance needed against evolution of more-virulent malaria Malaria parasites evolving in vaccinated laboratory mice become more virulent, according to research at Penn State University. The mice were injected with a critical component of several candidate h ... more | .. |
 New influenza virus from seals highlights the risks of pandemic flu from animals A new strain of influenza virus found in harbor seals could represent a threat to wildlife and human health, according to the authors of a study appearing July 31 in mBio, the online open-access jou ... more | .. |
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 Detecting cancer with lasers has limited use 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 find some forms of melanoma even if onl ... more | .. |
 Scientists treat ulcers with 'spray-on skin' Scientists said Friday they had developed a revolutionary "spray-on skin" treatment for venous leg ulcers - a common ailment involving a shallow, open and stubborn wound on the ankle or lower leg. ... more | .. |
 Climate Concerns And Public Health Issues For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a potentially devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it m ... more | .. |
 An avian flu that jumps from birds to mammals is killing New England's baby seals A novel avian influenza virus has acquired the ability to infect aquatic mammals and was responsible for an outbreak of fatal pneumonia that recently struck harbor seals in New England, according to ... more |
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Balerion backs Northwood to tackle ground bottlenecks in expanding space economy
China prepares offshore test base for reusable liquid rocket launches
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 New bird flu virus killing US baby seals: study A new kind of bird flu has been causing deadly pneumonia in baby seals off the northeastern US coast and could pose a risk to humans, according to US research released Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 HIV-positive Namibians did not okay sterilisation: court A Namibian court ruled Monday that three women with HIV were sterilised without their informed consent, but dismissed their claim that the operation was performed because of their condition. ... more | .. |
  World's smallest semiconductor laser created by University of Texas scientists Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world's smallest semiconductor laser, a breakthrough for emerging photonic t ... more | .. |
 Bill Clinton urges transparency in AIDS funding Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday said donors will continue to fund the response to the world AIDS crisis despite global financial woes and urged greater transparency by all involved. ... more |
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 Small breakthroughs offer big hope of AIDS 'cure' Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the three-decade-old disease. ... more | .. |
 New model of disease contagion ranks U.S. airports in terms of their spreading influence Public health crises of the past decade - such as the 2003 SARS outbreak, which spread to 37 countries and caused about 1,000 deaths, and the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic that killed about 300,000 people ... more | .. |
 Researchers develop laser technology to fight cancer 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 and destroy" mission for cancerous tumor ... more | .. |
 Belgian scientists develop way to detect superparasites Belgian scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp, Belgium made a breakthrough in bridging high tech molecular biology research on microbial pathogens and the needs of the po ... more |
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NASA advances space based tracking of marine debris
Inside King Charles's passion project, focus of Amazon film
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'Cure' research suggests new paths to HIV control Three studies presented Thursday at a major world conference on AIDS show new ways that scientists are striving toward a cure for the three-decade-old disease. ... more | .. |
 Women with HIV too often unseen: US advocate As a black American woman with HIV, Linda Scruggs said Wednesday that she represents a group that is disproportionately affected by the pandemic and must get more involved in advocacy and research. ... more | .. |
 AIDS cure may have two main pathways: experts Investigators are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on the stunning stories of a small group of people around the world who have been able to overcome the disease. ... more | .. |
 Mobile phones help bolster Uganda's fight against HIV Stella Nayiga clutches her mobile phone as she describes the messages that she received punctually every morning and evening for over a year, reminding her to take her antiretroviral (ARV) drugs regularly. ... more |
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  GE Researchers to Study Link Between Microgravity and Vision Impairment in Astronauts Scientists at GE Global Research will soon begin a three-year project to build and test a new ultrasound probe and measurement techniques that could eventually be used in space to monitor how the sp ... more | .. |
 AIDS cure may have two main pathways: experts Investigators are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on the stunning stories of a small group of people around the world who have been able to overcome the disease. ... more | .. |
 Triangles guide the way for live neural circuits in a dish Korean scientists have used tiny stars, squares and triangles as a toolkit to create live neural circuits in a dish. They hope the shapes can be used to create a reproducible neural circuit model th ... more | .. |
'No excuse' for not turning tide on AIDS: expert Science has given the world "no excuse" to resist bold action against the spread of the 30-year AIDS pandemic, said a top US expert at the opening of the International AIDS Conference on Sunday. ... more |
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Laser method proposed to extend muon lifetime for science applications
Quantum collapse models point to subtle limits in timekeeping accuracy
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'No excuse' for not turning tide on AIDS: expert Science has given the world "no excuse" to resist bold action against the spread of the 30-year AIDS pandemic, said a top US expert at the opening of the International AIDS Conference on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Researchers unveil promising TB drug cocktail Researchers reported progress Monday with an experimental drug cocktail that killed a record 99 percent of TB bacteria in two weeks and costs a fraction of existing treatments. ... more | .. |
Scientists urge fresh push for AIDS cure International scientists on Thursday urged a new push for a cure to AIDS, saying the three-decade epidemic is outpacing medications to curb it. ... more | .. |
Botanical compound could prove crucial to healing influenza Building on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida, researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) have discovered that abscisic acid has anti-inflammat ... more |
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HIV drugs reach 8 million in needy countries More than eight million people - a record number in low- and middle-income countries - are now taking antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV, according to data released Wednesday by UNAIDS. ... more | .. |
End of AIDS pandemic in sight: US expert Three decades into the AIDS pandemic an end to new infections is in sight, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ... more | .. |
 Man-made pores mimic important features of natural pores Inspired by nature, an international research team has created synthetic pores that mimic the activity of cellular ion channels, which play a vital role in human health by severely restricting the t ... more | .. |
 Nanoscale scaffolds and stem cells show promise in cartilage repair Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help coax stem cells into developing into cartilage, the shock-absorbing lin ... more |
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