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Metastatic breast cancer hitches a free ride from the immune system

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most lethal form of breast cancer . It spreads easily through the lymphatic and blood vessels, forming metastasis which can lead to multi-organ failure. New research published in BioMed ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair

When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Honey could be effective at treating and preventing wound infections

Manuka honey could help clear chronic wound infections and even prevent them from developing in the first place, according to a new study published in Microbiology. The findings provide further evidence for the clinical use of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Exercise can improve the health and wellbeing of cancer patients

Exercise can improve the health of cancer patients who have completed their main cancer-related treatment finds a study published in the British Medical Journal.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nissan demos self-healing Scratch Shield iPhone case

Nissan today announced the latest piece of must-have kit for the iPhone - a ground-breaking self-healing iPhone case. The Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone case features the brand's pioneering self-healing paint ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Discovery could help stem smoking-related diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- Sufferers of smoking related lung diseases could have their debilitating symptoms reduced following the discovery of a potential new treatment.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New clues to human deafness found in mice

Providing clues to deafness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene that is required for proper development of the mouse inner ear.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New synthetic molecules treat autoimmune disease in mice

A team of Weizmann Institute scientists has turned the tables on an autoimmune disease. In such diseases, including Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's tissues. But the scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste

When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Genome-wide study into new gene functions in the formation of platelets

In a study into the genetics of blood cell formation, researchers have identified 68 regions of the genome that affect the size and number of platelets. Platelets are small cells that circulate in the blood and are key to ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manipulating serotonin can promote healthy repair in chronic liver disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Publishing in the leading medical journal Nature Medicine, a team led by Newcastle University academics have identified serotonin receptors which can be targeted with drugs to enhance the natural healin ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hydrogen peroxide provides clues to immunity, wound healing and tumor biology

Hydrogen peroxide isn't just that bottled colorless liquid in the back of the medicine cabinet that's used occasionally for cleaning scraped knees and cut fingers.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Worms reveal secrets of wound-healing response

The lowly and simple roundworm may be the ideal laboratory model to learn more about the complex processes involved in repairing wounds and could eventually allow scientists to improve the body's response to healing skin ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study documents toll of smoke inhalation injuries

A study of burn patients has found that those who suffered the most severe smoke inhalation also had more inflammation and spent more time on ventilators and in intensive care.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smart materials that get bone to heal

Bone tissue is very good at self-healing, but in many situations the natural healing process is not sufficient. In a dissertation at Uppsala University, Sonya Piskounova shows how functional materials that ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Healing

Physiological healing is the restoration of damaged living tissue, organs and biological system to normal function. It is the process by which the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic area. Healing incorporates both the removal of necrotic tissue (demolition), and the replacement of this tissue.

The replacement can happen in two ways:

Most organs will heal using a mixture of both mechanisms.

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