News tagged with skin tissue


Study shows link between vitamin D, skin cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

A Henry Ford Hospital study has shown a link between Vitamin D levels and basal cell carcinoma, a finding that could lead researchers to better understand the development of the most common form of skin cancer.





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Microbe detective seeks out germs

Microbe detective seeks out germs

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microorganisms are everywhere and most of them are harmless, but they can do a lot of damage in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or in tissue transplants. With the aid of a new device, germs can be detected ...


Breakthrough for babies born with severe cleft palates after experiments at ISIS

Breakthrough for babies born with severe cleft palates after experiments at ISIS

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists working on a treatment for babies born with cleft palates have made a promising breakthrough and the first clinical trials are planned for early next year. Clefts are the most common birth defect ...


Scientists sniff out the evolution of chemical nociception

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Whenever you choke on acrid cigarette smoke, feel like you're burning up from a mouthful of wasabi-laced sushi, or cry while cutting raw onions and garlic, your response is being triggered by a primordial chemical sensor ...


Shutting out soft tissue cancers in the cold

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cryotherapy, an interventional radiology treatment to freeze cancer tumors, may become the treatment of the future for cancer that has metastasized in soft tissues (such as ovarian cancer) and in bone tumors. Such patients ...


Living longer: Colon cancer patients gain time with radiofrequency ablation treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Approximately half of Americans living with colorectal cancer will develop liver metastases at some point during the course of their disease. Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment that applies heat directly ...


New CU-Boulder hand bacteria study holds promise for forensics identification

New hand bacteria study holds promise for forensics identification

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Forensic scientists may soon have a valuable new item in their toolkits -- a way to identify individuals using unique, telltale types of hand bacteria left behind on objects like keyboards and computer mice, ...


Interventional radiology: Zapping uterine fibroids with heat from high-energy sound waves

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There's a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves ...


Imaging fat layer around heart can help predict disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imaging epicardial adipose tissue, or the layer of fat around the heart, can provide extra information compared with standard diagnostic techniques such as coronary artery calcium scoring, according to research by cardiologists ...


Scientists revealed Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded by a mouse

Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists revealed Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded by a mouse a metre (three feet) away with enough precision and speed to hunt in the dark.


A golden bullet for cancer

A golden bullet for cancer: Nanoparticles provide a targeted version of photothermal therapy for cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or "magic bullet," as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment.



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