Items tagged with medicine

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First Fully Functional Artificial Heart Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 14:34:03 - Anuradha Menon For all the bad news in medicine today -- studies that cell phones might cause cancer, or that widely used flame retardants could have dire effects... read more

New Cancer-Killing Compound from Salad Plant Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 18:01:17 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more... read more

Secrets of Superbug-Busting Antibiotic Monday, October 13th, 2008 - 10:50:45 - Anuradha Menon This week Nature Nanotechnology journal reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel... read more

Economics Theory to Trace Brain's Data Flow Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - 14:17:08 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research:... read more

Cell Protein Better Than Morphine? Friday, October 10th, 2008 - 10:06:39 - Anuradha Menon More people suffer from pain than from heart disease, diabetes and cancer combined, but many of the drugs used to relieve suffering are not... read more

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 Announced Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 05:04:06 - Iddo Genuth The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half to Harald zur... read more

Breast Cancer Cells Recycle to Escape Death Sunday, October 5th, 2008 - 10:01:57 - Anuradha Menon Many breast cancer cells facing potentially lethal antiestrogen therapy recycle to survive, researchers say. About 70 percent of breast cancer cells... read more

Pigs Bred With Cystic Fibrosis Sunday, September 28th, 2008 - 13:53:41 - Ehud Rattner Cystic Fibrosis (CF) continues to be a lethal disease for humans despite the identification of the problematic gene two decades ago. Many humans born... read more

Tiny Molecule Helps Control Blood-Vessels Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 - 14:41:17 - Anuradha Menon The development and repair of heart tissue and blood vessels is intimately tied to a tiny piece of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is found nowhere else... read more

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