Archive: 18/08/2015

Possible test for liver cancer using technology for analysing rocks and minerals

A group of clinicians and geochemists are working to develop a test for the most common form of primary liver cancer, HCC (Hepatocellular Carcinoma). HCC kills over 600,000 people worldwide every year. It usually develops ...

Aug 18, 2015

Implied motion improves food evaluation

Think you'd like the food on your plate more if it was moving? Off-hand, your mind might go to images of worms and other small critters - an unappealing proposition. But a new study by researchers Yaniv Gvili, Moty Amar, ...

Aug 18, 2015

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Clinicians and researchers develop approach to shortness of breath

We all feel breathless from time to time: we've run for the bus, we've climbed a steep hill, we've cycled quickly to a meeting we're late for. For some people, however, even the smallest of exertions – walking to the bathroom, ...

Aug 18, 2015

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Lasers could help doctors diagnose cancer earlier, more reliably and less invasively

It's everyone's worst nightmare: a lump found in a breast, a questionable polyp spotted in a routine colonoscopy. A tiny bit of diseased tissue that could be the sign of life-threatening cancer.

Aug 18, 2015

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Unequal healthcare funding provokes 'moral disgust', pioneering brain scan research shows

Areas of the brain associated with social and moral disgust are triggered when health care funding is split unequally, researchers from the UK and Australia have found.

Aug 18, 2015

Proof-of-concept study shows potential for using ultrasound to detect early signs of preterm labor

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Institut Langevin and Paris-Descartes University have conducted a proof-of-concept study that raises the possibility of using ultrasound techniques to detect cervical stiffness ...

Aug 18, 2015

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How DNA detectives are helping solve the rise of superbugs

It is now 12 years since the first set of genetic instructions in a human was sequenced. Many of our hopes for using knowledge about the human genome to better fight the likes of heart disease and cancer still lie years and ...

Aug 18, 2015

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Device will deliver skin cell regeneration to treat burns, hard-to-heal wounds and skin trauma

Avita Medical Ltd, a regenerative medicine company specialising in the treatment of wounds and skin defects, today announced that it has forged a partnership with the University of Huddersfield to explore the mechanism ...

Aug 18, 2015

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Spare your health, budget, and the planet—ditch the palaeodiet

Interest in the diet of our evolutionary ancestors would ordinarily be a topic of curiosity in only the most obscure of scientific circles.

Aug 18, 2015

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To what extent are condoms responsible for erection difficulties?

Research indicates that the use of condoms may cause some men to experience erection difficulties. However, in a study of 479 heterosexual men who used condoms and were 18 to 24 years old, those who reported condom-associated ...

Aug 18, 2015

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