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DARPA Developing Novel Therapies Customized to Individual Patients
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
The body's peripheral nervous system constantly monitors the status of internal organs and helps regulate biological responses to infection, injury or other imb...
Climate change poses growing health threat: UN
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
Climate change poses a growing health threat, the UN warned on Wednesday, saying extreme weather and rising temperatures could claim hundreds of thousands of li...
Study shows emergency room nurses share special traits
Aug 21, 2014 (UPI)
Being a nurse in a hospital's emergency room or emergency department is quite a bit different than being a nurse in just about any other capacity. So it would f...
Bypass commands from the brain to legs through a computer
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas ...
'Seeing' through Virtual Touch Is Believing
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
Visual impairment comes in many forms, and it's on the rise in America. A University of Cincinnati experiment aimed at this diverse and growing population could...
Synthetic molecule makes cancer self-destruct
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and five other institutions have created a molecule that can cause cancer cells to self-destruct by ferrying ...
Bioengineers make functional 3-D brain-like tissue model
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
The human brain remains one of the least understood organs in the human body, because of its complexity and the difficulty of studying its physiology in the liv...
Bioengineers create functional 3-D brain-like tissue
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can be...
Exploring 3-D printing to make organs for transplants
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Printing whole new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual kidneys, l...
Nanoparticle Alarm Clock Awakens Immune Systems Put To Sleep By Cancer
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center are exploring ways to wake up the immune system so it recognizes and attacks invading cancer cell...
Mobile tech reshaping the health sector
Jul 27, 2014 (AFP)
Your smartphone is not only your best friend, it's also become your personal trainer, coach, medical lab and maybe even your doctor. "Digital health" has become...
More than glitter
Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)
A special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells. A new stud...
BYU professor helping to eradicate fatal sleeping sickness
Jul 22, 2014 (SPX)
A BYU ecologist is playing a role in the effort to curb a deadly disease affecting developing nations across equatorial Africa. Steven L. Peck, a BYU professor ...
Physicists reveal random nature of metastasis
Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)
The spreading of a cancerous tumour from one part of the body to another may occur through pure chance instead of key genetic mutations, a new study has shown. ...
Bubble wrap serves as sheet of tiny test tubes in resource-limited regions
Jul 18, 2014 (SPX)
Popping the blisters on the bubble wrap might be the most enjoyable thing about moving. But now, scientists propose a more productive way to reuse the popular p...
Does tissue decelerate therapeutic heavy ion beams
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
Irradiation with heavy ions is suitable in particular for patients suffering from cancer with tumours which are difficult to access, for example in the brain. T...
New simple setup for X-ray phase contrast
Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)
X-ray phase-contrast imaging can provide high-quality images of objects with lower radiation dose. But until now these images have been hard to obtain and requi...
'Nanojuice' could improve how doctors examine the gut
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
Located deep in the human gut, the small intestine is not easy to examine. X-rays, MRIs and ultrasound images provide snapshots but each suffers limitations. He...
New UN force on climate impacts on health
Jul 08, 2014 (AFP)
Two UN agencies on Tuesday announced they were setting up a joint office to help fight the threat to health from climate change and extreme weather. Scientists ...
Seeing your true colors: Standards for hyperspectral imaging
Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)
Today, doctors who really want to see if a wound is healing have to do a biopsy or some other invasive technique that, besides injuring an already injured patie...
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