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The technology inside a satellite may soon scan your skin for cancer
Posted in Medicine on 9th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
The hardware within this satellite may, in a few years, form the core of a new medical device that doctors can use to scan human skin for disease.
Shape of eye's 'light pipes' is key to colour sorting
Posted in Medicine on 7th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
Physicists have pinned down precisely how pipe-shaped cells in our retina filter the incoming colors.
Cancer-fighting nanoparticles carry medicine to tumors in the lungs
Posted in Medicine on 6th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
A new nanoparticle is capable of carrying cancer-fighting drugs to a tumor site in the lungs before releasing them.
Understanding the brain through growing brain organoids
Posted in Science on 1st Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
A new method for growing human brain cells could unlock the mysteries of dementia, mental illness, and other neurological disorders.
Breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells metastasize
Posted in Medicine on 27th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
A protein commonly found in human cells could be an important switch that activates cancer cell metastasis, according to a new study.