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Scientists Are Using Light To Fight Cancer In Mice
When it comes to medical research, technology is looking at new ways to help track down and fight every ailment under the sun. The latest research to come to light is in the fight against cancer, a fight that everyone is desperate to try help progress. The research is in…
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First CRISPR Gene Editing Trials on Humans Approved
A team of doctors from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine have become the first to be approved to begin trials using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique on humans. CRISPR is a gene-editing technology, developed by Japanese scientists in 1987, which can cut and replace DNA with great precision. The…
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Origami Meat Robot Can Remove Debris from Your Belly
MIT researchers have developed an ingestible robot, made from folded meat, which can perform tasks within the stomach that range from removing foreign objects that have been accidentally swallowed to repairing tissue damage. The tiny droid, made from a folded sheet of pig intestine, could herald a revolution in exploring…
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Doctors Implant 3D-Printed Vertebrae
3D Printers have helped medicine come a long way, with the ability to customise and create things in an easy and cost-effective way that previously would have been impossible to do. 3D-printed ribs, to livers, eyes and even ears. While these are all amazing feats, they have always been generic items, things which…
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Gauss Cannon Designed To Heal You From Inside
Gauss Guns are often a thing of fiction. While they have been designed, achieving their aim is difficult due to the size and energy required to fire them. For those who are unaware of what I mean when I say gauss gun, it was a device designed to avoid using…
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Artificial Intelligence Solves 120-Year-Old Mystery of Cellular Regeneration
An artificial intelligence has, with absolute autonomy (i.e. no input from humans), cracked a 120-year-old biological mystery. A team of computer scientists and biologists from Tufts University developed a computer that was able to form its own theories when given scientific data to work from. The first challenge the team…
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New Disposable Tech Can Draw Blood Without Needles
A new startup, sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new piece of medical tech that can draw blood, painlessly, without breaking the skin. The blood-drawing device – developed by Tasso Inc, an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison – could replace needles entirely…
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Man Saves Wife’s Sight With 3D Print-Out of Her Tumour
Back in 2013, Californian 3D graphic artist Michael Balzer took it upon himself to intervene in the treatment of his wife’s brain tumour, and saved her sight in the process. Pamela Shavaun Scott, Balzer’s wife, discovered after an MRI scan in August 2013 that she had a brain tumour, positioned…
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Remarkable GIFs Showing the Inner-Working of the Body From GE’s New CT Scanner
General Electric has been showing of the capabilities of its new computerised tomography (CT) scanner, and the results are stunning. The Revolution CT, though introduced in 2013, has only been in hospital and clinic use since last September, and doctors and patients alike are impressed; doctors because the images the…
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HIV Virus Successfully Removed From Human Cells For The First Time
Scientists at the Temple University School of Medicine in the USA claim that they have successfully managed to remove the HIV virus from cultured human cells for the first time. The experiment that has achieved the feat are detailed in a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy…
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Music Proven to be More Effective than Drugs When Fighting Alzheimer and Dementia
Modern medicine nowadays tries to ‘fix’ us with pills and drugs, even when the latter type of medication proves to be ineffective. A natural phenomenon that we tend to medicalize is aging, a process we all have to face sooner or later. Statistics show that around 1.5 million people are…
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Remote Control Contraceptive Being Developed by The Gates Foundation
A new project is being funded by the Gates Foundation that could end the need to take a daily contraceptive pill. Instead of taking one pill a day, their project could result in you taking one pill that lasts 16 years! It seems like complete over kill for a tablet…
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Face Off, Donors Soon Decide On Donating Face
Remember the hit 1997 movie Face/Off starting Nicolas Cage and John Travolta? Well due to medical procedure advancements the idea of transplanting faces could soon be a possibility. Faces are not the only transplants that could be achieved, with the U.S. Government preparing a new legislation to help donors who may not…
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Jellyfish DNA Can Make Glow In The Dark Pigs
When scientists from Turkey created glow in the dark Rabbits in August 2013, we wondered whether or not this interesting experiment would continue. Well it has, a team from the South China Agricultural University has been able to produce 10 glow in the dark pigs. The pigs turn a green…
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