Radiation Exposure Could Be Countered By Ingesting Ex-Rad Pills
The US Department of Defense has been developing pills that will protect humans from radiation. The pills are named Ex-Rad and were developed by Onconova…
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Maggots Secretions Suppress Immune Response
Researchers have figured out how fly larvae works as a healing balm that’s been used by battlefield surgeons for centuries to close wounds. The scientists…
Practicing Meditation or Exercising Will Make You Sick Less Often
In order to avoid getting a cold, people can try to meditate or exercise. A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that adults…
Reaction to Placebo Effect May Be Genetic
The reason why some people tend to respond to treatments that have no active ingredients might be down to genetics. A new study indicates that…
Boys are Starting Puberty Almost Two Years Earlier than Expected
Currently, there is a scientific consensus that females are hitting puberty earlier than before, developing breasts as young as 7 or 8. Scientists believe childhood…
InTouch’s RP-VITA Remotely-Controlled Robotic Surgeons
Robots are set to enter operating theaters, albeit remotely controlled. InTouch Health Care is developing robots that will allow doctors to provide their expertise and…
Medicine Nobel Prize Awarded to Researchers for Reprogramming Mature Cells to a Pluripotent State
The discovery that mature, adult cells can be reprogrammed back to an embryonic-like state has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It…
Magnets Used to Eradicate Cancer Cells
A group of South Korean researchers has developed a new method to cause cell death in both living fish and lab bowel cancer cells using…
Development of Inkjet-Printable LC Lasers
Most lasers are made up of silicon wafers using expensive processes, similar to the ones used to make microprocessors. Scientists have designed a new way…
Sleeping Longer On Weekends Doesn’t Erase Sleep Debt
Unlike the popular belief that sleeping more on the weekends can help sleep-deprived people catch up on sleep, a new sleep study has shown that…
First Ever Real-Time Footage of the Initial Seconds in the Life of Membrane Vesicles
A newly published study details how Harvard scientists used Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy (TIRF) to capture the first-ever real-time footage of the initial five…
Study Shows that Vorinostat can Dislodge the Dormant HIV Virus in Patients
A newly published study from the University of North Carolina found that the drug vorinostat, a deacetylase inhibitor that is used to treat some types…
Fluoxetine (Prozac) Shows Promise as an Antiviral Agent
Published in early July in the journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a new study from UCLA scientists found that fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac,…
New Drug Candidate Kills Cancer Cells Better Than Cisplatin
A newly published report describes the new drug candidate known as phenanthriplatin, a compound that showed a different pattern of activity than that of cisplatin…
Japanese Scientists Use Pluripotent Cells to Create Functional Liver Tissue
Japanese scientists have been able to induce stem cells to create liver-like tissue in a dish. The new findings were reported online by the journal…
Physicists Generate Laser-Like Beams of X-Rays From a Tabletop Device
Physicists have generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, opening the door for devices that may be used by scientists to…
Evolution Helps Deduce the Shape of 18 Families of Transmembrane Proteins
Scientists at Harvard Medical School developed algorithms that allowed them to use evolution as their guide to deduce the three-dimensional structure of 18 families of…
Intensive Glycemic Control Does Not Definitively Reduce the Risk of Impaired Kidney Function
By searching the available medical literature and evaluating seven randomized trials that involved 28,065 adult patients who were monitored for two to 15 years, researchers…
