Medical Discoveries
Lung treatment breathes new life into flu vaccinesInhaling, rather than injecting, vaccines provides added protection against influenza, and could make stocks go further in a pandemic |
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Reprogrammed Cells Make Insulin From ScratchCells transformed inside a diabetic mouse become successful insulin-producers. |
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Milestone reached in search for deafness cureA new gene therapy that grows hearing cells in mice will not itself be of use to deaf people, but might point to new ways to reverse deafness in humans |
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Stem cells can be used to create limitless blood supplies: reportWASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists from a US firm claim to have created a large number of red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, opening up the prospect of having a limitless supply of blood for transfusions. |
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Cell change ‘keeps organs young’Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades. |
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Australian scientists in potential leukaemia breakthroughSYDNEY (AFP) - Australian scientists said Monday they had mapped a blood cell structure which could hold the key to improved drug treatments for diseases such as leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. |
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Peruvian doctors showcase high cure rate for drug-resistant TBMore than 60 per cent of patients diagnosed with a type of tuberculosis that is very difficult to treat were cured with aggressive drug treatment, according to a study from Peru that shows the disease is not a 'death sentence.' |
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Canadian researchers discover ovulation geneCanadian and European researchers have discovered the gene that regulates ovulation. |
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Spinal implant grows with the patientEngineers have developed an implant to correct curvature of the spine that "grows" with the child and harvests energy from their movements. |
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Virus helps show cancer spreadScientists have used a common cold virus to "light up" prostate cancer tumours in different parts of the body. |
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Discovery could lead to cold sore cureNow that researchers have found how cold sores operate, they believe they may soon discover how to eradicate the virus that causes them. |
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Cancer cure in mice to get human trialsClinical trials begin this week at Wake Forest University on a cancer therapy that has completely cured the disease in every mouse tested over the past few years. |
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Clone cell cancer ‘cure’ hailedScientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body. |
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Cancer vaccine target pinpointedScientists may be one step closer to producing a specific targeted vaccine for killing cancer cells. |
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Health news
- Safer vaccine created without virus
- Lenses found to ‘cure colour-blindness’
- Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules
- Totally blind mice get sight back
- Human immune system proteins shown to suppress HIV
- Fighting cancer with cell phones
- First liver cancer ‘chemo-bath’ in the UK
- New opportunity for rapid treatment of malaria
- Fear can be erased from the brain before its memory has been formed
- Enjoyment of life ‘key to living longer’
- Scientists uncover gene behind skin disease
- New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to Life
- Robots join the fight against cancer
- Canada will no longer oppose global fight against asbestos
- ‘Stem cell hope’ for deaf people
- Deaf girl fitted with bionic ear speaks her first word
- Johnson & Johnson Announces a Ban on Harmful Chemicals in Products
- Male contraceptive pill ‘step closer’ after mice studies
- Spotting Cancer Cells in Blood With a 27-Picosecond Camera
- Hope for more effective TB treatment
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