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Rethinking bacterial persistence
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
It's often difficult to completely eliminate a bacterial infection with antibiotics; part of the population usually manages to survive. We've known about this p...
French startup takes fork on road to health
Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)
If you come to a fork on the Internet, take it. It may end up being beneficial to your health. The French-based startup Slowcontrol is unveiling at the Consumer...
Natural birth a tough sell in China's caesarean boom
Jan 04, 2013 (AFP)
As an automatic piano chimed a wedding march, new mother Wang Dan walked down a red carpet towards a hospital room called the "White House", minutes after givin...
Electric stimulation of brain releases powerful, opiate-like painkiller
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers used electricity on certain regions in the brain of a patient with chronic, severe facial pain to release an opiate-like substance that's considered...
Britain's first hand transplant a success
Jan 04, 2013 (UPI)
A British grandfather receiving the country's first hand transplant says he has already gained movement of his fingers following the operation. Former pub owner...
Patient with rare 'word blindness' condition relearns how to read
Jan 03, 2013 (UPI)
A novel technique has enabled a patient with a rare neurological "word blindness" condition to read again, researchers at Loyola University Chicago report. Peop...
Russia testing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's medicine
Jan 01, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russian scientists have been testing a new medicine that is expected to protect the nervous system and hopefully become a cure for the most wide-spread nervous ...
Super-fine sound beam could one day be an invisible scalpel
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
A carbon-nanotube-coated lens that converts light to sound can focus high-pressure sound waves to finer points than ever before. The University of Michigan engi...
Revealed: secrets of ancient Chinese medicinal herb
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
Scientist in the United States on Sunday offered a molecular-level explanation for how a Chinese herbal medicine used for more than 2,000 years tackles fever an...
Measuring skull pressure without the headache
Dec 21, 2012 (ESA)
Space research has developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside your skull using simple sound waves from headphones. The device is an effective early-wa...
Reality check for DNA nanotechnology
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
Two major barriers to the advancement of DNA nanotechnology beyond the research lab have been knocked down. This emerging technology employs DNA as a programmab...
Viruses cooperate or conquer to cause maximum destruction
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered new evidence about the evolution of viruses, in work that will change our understanding about the control of infectious diseases such...
The Bacterial Ecology of Humans Has Changed Dramatically in the Last 100 Years
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Oklahoma-led study has demonstrated that ancient DNA can be used to understand ancient human microbiomes. The microbiomes from ancient people ha...
Fungus responsible for 5 deaths in the wake of massive tornado
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
A fast growing, flesh-eating fungus killed 5 people following a massive tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., according to two new studies based on genomic seque...
Mussel goo inspires blood vessel glue
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
A University of British Columbia researcher has helped create a gel - based on the mussel's knack for clinging to rocks, piers and boat hulls - that can be pain...
Automated design for drug discovery
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
A system of 'automated design' for new drugs could help develop the complex therapies needed for many medical conditions while also improving drug safety and ef...
US doctors defeat leukemia with modified HIV
Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)
US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia by pioneering the use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV ...
Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Borrowing from microfabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry, MIT and Harvard Medical School (HMS) engineers have developed a simple and inexpe...
Blind patient reads words stimulated directly onto the retina
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
For the very first time researchers have streamed braille patterns directly into a blind patient's retina, allowing him to read four-letter words accurately and...
Nestle ventures into Chinese medicine with pharma deal
Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)
The world's biggest food group Nestle is moving into traditional Chinese medicine by joining forces with Chinese pharma group Chi-Med, the Swiss group said on W...
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