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Amid concerns about possible terrorist attacks with nuclear materials, and fresh memories of environmental contamination from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear... Read More »
When faced with life-or-death situations, bacteria use a sophisticated version of ‘game theory’ to consider their options and decide on a course of... Read More »
Researchers have developed multiple techniques and procedures to detect cancer cells during the earliest stages of the disease or post-treatment. But one of the major ... Read More »
Using nanoparticles and alternating magnetic fields, University of Georgia scientists have found that head and neck cancerous tumor cells in mice can be killed in... Read More »
The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now a four-year... Read More »
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a gut-on-a-chip microdevice, lined by living human cells... Read More »
In September 2011, GE launched the $100 million healthymagination challenge, an innovation challenge to find and fund the best new ideas for improving breast cancer... Read More »
Paramedics can reduce someone's chances of having a cardiac arrest or dying by 50 percent by immediately administering a mixture of glucose, insulin and potassium ... Read More »
GSK enters into patent settlement agreement with Genentech and City of Hope - Pharmaceutical Business Review Genmab has announced that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) entered into ... Read More »
Everyday, heart disease patients and doctors decide between treating blocked arteries with bypass surgery or less-invasive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI... Read More »
Today, the details of the most extensive full face transplant completed to date, including both jaws, teeth, and tongue, were released. The 36-hour operation occurred ... Read More »
Research from Queen Mary, University of London has uncovered a mechanism which causes normal cells to turn cancerous. Lead investigator Muy-Teck Teh said the team... Read More »
Researchers have created a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule quickly and cheaply. This new technique could make DNA... Read More »
Data from a phase 2 clinical trial show that a treatment targeting the PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) antibody could be a new treatment for... Read More »
Overweight, diabetic patients who had bariatric surgery achieved significant improvement or remission of their diabetes, according to new research. Some weight loss... Read More »
Myriad gene patent ruling sent back to lower court
| Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set aside a ruling that said Myriad Genetics Inc... Read More »
Stem cells derived from heart failure patients' own bone marrow improved the function of the left ventricle, the heart's pumping chamber. In this video... Read More »
Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, researchers report... Read More »
Our immune system’s communications network involves billions of proteins and other biomolecules. Interactions between these molecules are influenced by the... Read More »
Many women with breast cancer will undergo surgery to remove the tumor and require at least some breast reconstruction, often in the form of implants. However... Read More »