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Big ideas in health and science for 2016
Our understanding of human health is constantly evolving, but it's the big ideas that serve as a goal post for these discoveries.
Dec 22, 2015
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Genetically engineered pigs: Advance looks promising
Stories of people waiting for organ transplants that could save their lives are well known. The numbers, though, are not encouraging. The US Department of Health and Human Services has some data: 122,407 people need a lifesaving ...
Medical research
Fluorescent material reveals how cells grow
Fibre from a semiconducting polymer, developed for solar cells, is an excellent support material for the growth of new human tissue. Researchers at Linköping University have shown that the fibre glows, which makes it possible ...
Jul 21, 2015
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Genetics
Scientists reveal epigenome maps of the human body's major organs
For more than a decade, scientists have had a working map of the human genome, a complete picture of the DNA sequence that encodes human life. But new pages are still being added to that atlas: maps of chemical markers called ...
Jun 1, 2015
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Researchers discuss plans for developing human model organs on plastic chips
(Medical Xpress)—A diverse group of speakers at this year's American Society for Microbiology-Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting held last week, outlined their work and plans for the future on developing ...
Medical research
New technology makes tissues, someday maybe organs
A new instrument could someday build replacement human organs the way electronics are assembled today: with precise picking and placing of parts.
Dec 22, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US-based scientist makes potent version of H1N1 flu
A US-based Japanese scientist said Wednesday he has succeeded in engineering a version of the so-called swine flu virus that would be able to evade the human immune system.
Jul 2, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Two breath compounds could be associated with larynx cancer
Researchers at the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Alcorcón Hospital (Madrid) have compared the volatile substances exhaled by eleven people with cancer of larynx, with those of another twenty healthy people. The results ...
Apr 26, 2014
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Thwarting herpes, scientists open antiviral drug path
While herpesviruses infect most animals – including humans – with incurable disease, Cornell researchers have found a genetic trail to thwart its reproductive powers, cutting its infective powers by a factor of up to ...
Sep 5, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
First probable person to person transmission of new bird flu virus in China
The first report of probable person to person transmission of the new avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in Eastern China is published in BMJ today.
Aug 6, 2013
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