Health
What happens to your vagina as you age?
The vagina is an internal organ with a complex ecosystem, influenced by circulating hormone levels which change during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause.
Dec 20, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Four things you need to know about having a cesarean section
If you're pregnant or planning to have a baby soon, you've probably been given lots of advice and information about what you might experience during and after the birth. But less information is often given about what to expect ...
May 3, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Alzheimer's disease: Five things to know
Alzheimer's disease, a devastating neuro-degenerative condition that causes dementia, affects more than 30 million people worldwide and remains an illness for which there is no cure.
Sep 20, 2022
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Surgery
The best new implants may be a piece of you
The future of medicine is often imagined to include some sort of high-tech or shiny device. But many cutting-edge therapies are fundamentally about using and improving upon what the body already has. There's CAR T therapy ...
Aug 26, 2021
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Medical research
In vitro organ model research trends
Two distinct approaches are predominantly used to recapitulate physiologically relevant in vitro human organ models. Organoids use stem cells to grow self-assembled replica organs through directed differentiation, whereas ...
Feb 7, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Transplant recipients may soon have a test to protect against organ rejection
To help prevent organ rejection, transplant recipients could receive drug cocktails personalised to their own immune systems if a new test, which has passed early trials, is successful. And new methods for scrubbing animal ...
Jul 9, 2019
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Medical research
Giving blood to artificial organs
Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina, and her team at the University of New South Wales and Tufts University in the USA, are using silk to grow blood vessels.
Jul 6, 2017
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Health
Can an orange a day keep the doctor away?
Everyone has heard about how an apple a day can keep the doctor away. Well, I have a different take on it—use an orange instead!
Dec 14, 2016
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Neuroscience
Transplant drug may provide benefits after spinal cord injury
New research in mice indicates that a drug commonly used to suppress the immune system in recipients of organ transplants may also reduce tissue damage and neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury. The findings are published ...
Jul 8, 2016
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Medical research
Bioprinting new organs
With the new 3D Bioprinter, the research group of Professor Paul Gatenholm at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering exploits new possibilities of tissue engineering and organ regeneration.
Apr 3, 2014
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