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Monitoring and controlling diabetes with a smart skin patch

Posted in Medicine on 28th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

An electronic skin patch that senses excess glucose in sweat and automatically administers drugs by heating up microneedles that penetrate the skin.

Injectable gel increases blood flow for arterial disease patients

Posted in Science on 19th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

A novel bio-gel formed from natural scaffolding taken from human muscle could help to treat treating arterial disease.

Blood test may give early warning of skin cancer relapse

Posted in Medicine on 7th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

A blood test may be able to sound early warning bells that patients with advanced melanoma skin cancer are relapsing.

Is A Cure For Diabetes Imminent?

Posted in Science on 8th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller

Diabetes can be treated and people with forms of the disease can adapt their lifestyle. However, there is, as yet, no cure.

Researchers find a genomic signature shared by 5 types of cancer

Posted in Medicine on 6th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller

"These findings could be an important step in developing a blood test to identify early cancers."