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Toil and trouble in China over Nobel medicine prize
Dec 02, 2015 (AFP)
China's Tu Youyou collects her country's first Nobel Prize for medicine next week for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a herb mentioned in a traditional te...
Sensor sees nerve action as it happens
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Duke and Stanford Universities have devised a way to watch the details of neurons at work, pretty much in real time. Every second of every day, t...
New method enables biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
MIT researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system that could ultimately replace a $100,000 piece of a lab equipment with components that cost just hund...
First-in-man use of virtual reality imaging in cardiac cath lab to treat blocked coronary artery
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
Virtual reality (VR) has potential to revolutionize some aspects of medicine and healthcare. Several medical specialties are already using it to train physician...
Bright prospects: Repairing neurons with light
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
The nervous system is built to last a lifetime, but diverse diseases or environmental insults can overpower the capacity of neurons to maintain function or to r...
Almost all donated organs unused in China: report
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
Almost all human organs donated for transplant in China go unused, state-run media said, after years of controversy about the use of body parts from executed pr...
New superbug resistant to last-line antibiotics: study
Nov 19, 2015 (AFP)
Scientists warned Thursday of the "epidemic potential" of deadly and fast-spreading bacteria resistant to last-line antibiotics. The new superbugs, found in sou...
Bioengineers cut in half time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a method that cuts down by half the time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors for m...
Mooving manure beyond drug-resistant bacteria
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
Manure management is serious business for a meat-hungry world. A single cow, depending on its size, can generate between 43 and 120 pounds of manure a day. Cow ...
Bacterial hole puncher could be new broad-spectrum antibiotic
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
Bacteria have many methods of adapting to resist antibiotics, but a new class of spiral polypeptides developed at the University of Illinois targets one thing n...
Revamped DNA analysis kit gets US nod
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Two years after personal genetics startup 23andMe was ordered by US authorities to stop selling its DNA test kits, a revamped product has gained market approval...
Powerful plastic microscope brings better diagnostic care for world's rural poor
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
You can learn a lot about the state of someone's immune system just by examining their blood under the microscope. An abnormally high or low white blood count, ...
New study provides key insights into aspirin's disease-fighting abilities
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have found that salicylic acid targets the activities of HMGB1, an inflammatory protein associated with a wide variety of diseases, offering hope th...
Scientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists from the University of Sydney have devised a way to use diamonds to identify cancerous tumours before they become life threatening. Their findings, p...
Scientists discover why elephants rarely get cancer
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Despite their big size, elephants rarely get cancer, and scientists said Thursday they have discovered the secret to the creatures' special protection. It's in ...
China's smoking death toll to double to 2 million in 2030
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Cigarette smoking will kill about two million Chinese in 2030, double the 2010 toll, said researchers Friday who warned of a "growing epidemic of premature deat...
Wearable electronic health patches cheaper and easier to make
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-perfor...
'Gifts' from Chinese herbal medicine
Oct 05, 2015 (AFP)
Derived from a herb used to treat fevers some 1,700 years ago, the anti-malaria drug artemisinin is one of many treatments plucked from the treasure chest of an...
Prototype lab in a needle could enable real-time, mobile lab a reality
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Houston Methodist, along with collaborators at two major Singapore institutions, have developed a lab in a needle device that could provide insta...
Self-assembling material could enable artificial arteries
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without t...
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