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Tiny robots used in surgical procedures

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Tiny robots that aid surgical procedures and medical checkups currently are the focus of intense research and study. In fact, some of these small-scale devices already are in practical use.





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MRI detects breast cancer at earlier stage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coupled with mammography detects almost all cancers at an early stage, thereby reducing the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer in high-risk women.


Article Traces History of Darwinian Medicine

Biology / Evolution

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite being a founding principle of modern biology for 150 years, evolutionary theory has played a limited role in the field of medicine. Only in the last 20 years has Darwinian medicine emerged as a discipline ...


Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible ...


Tiny molecule slows progression of Lou Gehrig's disease in mice

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that a molecule produced naturally by muscles in response to nerve damage can reduce symptoms and prolong life in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ...


Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer

Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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A never-approved drug developed to prevent the death of nerve cells after a stroke can efficiently kill cancer cells while keeping normal cells healthy and intact, an international team led by a Tel Aviv University ...


Newly discovered mechanism by which blood clots form

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Polyphosphate from blood platelets plays a key role in inflammation and the formation of blood clots, scientists from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown. The study, which is presented in the prestigious ...


Amount of gene surplus determines severity of mental retardation in males

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Researchers have discovered a new explanation for differences in the severity of mental illness in males. The more excess copies of a certain gene, the more serious the handicap. The genetic defect is situated on the X-chromosome; ...


Reaching the summit of protein dynamics

Reaching the summit of protein dynamics

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Understanding the incredibly speedy atomic mechanisms at work when a protein transitions from one shape to another has been an elusive scientific goal for years, but an essential one for elucidating the full ...


Successful stem cell therapy for treatment of eye disease

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Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal Stem Cells reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) ...


Researchers discover a way to strengthen proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Proteins, which perform such vital roles in our bodies as building and maintaining tissues and regulating cellular processes, are a finicky lot. In order to work properly, they must be folded just so, yet many proteins readily ...



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