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Oscillating electric field used to remove nanoparticles from blood
Posted in Medicine on 2nd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
Engineers are developing a technique using an oscillating electric field to separate nanoparticles from blood in a way that may one day make it a routine procedure.
Frequent blood donors live longer
Posted in Medicine on 21st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
A new study shows that people, who donate a lot of blood, suffer no serious ill effects and may even live longer than less frequent donors. Possible 'healthy donor' bias?
Researchers break blood-brain barrier with new ultrasound treatment
Posted in Medicine on 9th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
A non-invasive way to deliver medication into the brain, opening the door to better treatments for tumours, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
New Sepsis Detector Shrinks the Diagnosis from Days to Hours
Posted in Medicine on 7th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
Sepsis affects more than a million people every year in the U.S. alone, and diagnosis can take five days. A new tool cuts the time to five hours.
'Designer cells' reverse one-year-old's leukaemia
Posted in Medicine on 6th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
'The technology is moving very fast, the ability to target very specific regions of the genome have suddenly become much more efficient'