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Mar 04, 2014 (ESA)

Physicians in the Netherlands have turned to expertise from a planet-hunting telescope to steady their surgical microscope and save the sight of people threaten...

Now in 3-D: Video of virus-sized particle trying to enter cell

Feb 28, 2014 (SPX)

Tiny and swift, viruses are hard to capture on video. Now researchers at Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented look at a virus-like particle as it...

Microparticles Show Molecules Their Way

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Michigan/USA has produced novel microparticles, whose surface consists of...

Bioengineered growth factors lead to better wound healing

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

When we are wounded, our bodies naturally begin a process of repair of the damaged tissue. This process is mediated by biological molecules called growth factor...

Tracking Catalytic Reactions in Microreactors

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

A pathway to more effective and efficient synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs and other flow reactor chemical products has been opened by a study in which for the...

Magnesium may protect against hip fractures

Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)

There are considerable variations in the quality of drinking water in Norway. The researchers studied variations in magnesium and calcium levels in drinking wat...

New live-cell printing technology works like ancient Chinese woodblocking

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

With a nod to 3rd century Chinese woodblock printing and children's rubber stamp toys, researchers in Houston have developed a way to print living cells onto an...

Environment change threatens indigenous know-how

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

The way indigenous cultures around the globe use traditional medicines and pass on knowledge developed over centuries is directly linked to the natural environm...

New stem cell method may eliminate need for blood donations to maintain platelet supply

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

Platelets, whose primary function is to prevent bleeding, are vital for treating various forms of trauma and blood diseases. However, they can only be obtained ...

From surgery to laboratory and back again

Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)

A University of York scientist's experience in seeing his partner in hospital recovering from a double lung transplant prompted him to design and synthesise new...

Medicine goes mobile with smartphone apps, devices

Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)

Thanks to smartphones, email, video games and photo sharing are available at the touch of a finger. But attach a special case and that same phone can produce an...

Australian state has higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden

Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)

New research from the University of Adelaide shows that the state of South Australia has a higher rate of deaths from extreme cold compared with the northern Eu...

China can prevent 13 million smoking deaths by 2050: study

Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)

China can prevent nearly 13 million tobacco-related deaths by 2050 by fully implementing a set of neglected anti-smoking policies it had already agreed to, rese...

Social contact, regular exercise key to living longer

Feb 17, 2014 (AFP)

Social contact and regular exercise are key to aging well and living a longer life, according to newly presented research. In fact, feeling extremely lonely can...

Scientists turn primitive artificial celle into complex biological materials

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

It is a big dream in science: To start from scratch with simple artificial microskopic building blocks and end up with something much more complex: living syste...

Amputee feels in real-time with bionic hand

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

Nine years after an accident caused the loss of his left hand, Dennis Aabo Sorensen from Denmark became the first amputee in the world to feel - in real-time - ...

Radiation beams through human body imaged using Cherenkov effect

Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)

A scientific breakthrough may give the field of radiation oncology new tools to increase the precision and safety of radiation treatment in cancer patients by h...

Germany woos Chinese nurses

Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)

A pilot project unveiled Thursday seeks to attract Chinese nurses to Germany to make up for a staff shortage that is expected to worsen in coming years. Five yo...

Sludge as new sentinel for human health risks

Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)

Thousands of chemicals serving a variety of human needs flood into sewage treatment plants once their use life has ended. Many belong to a class of chemicals kn...

A world without antibiotics? The risk is real: experts

Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)

Humans face the very real risk of a future without antibiotics, a world of plummeting life expectancy where people die from diseases easily treatable today, sci...