Cancer blood test breakthrough

Doctors from Baltimore, have developed a personalised blood test that offers hope to cancer patients by being able to track via the patients own DNA if treatments are working or if cancer has returned. The test...

Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells

This is mainly due to the fact that locally employed embassy staff can not be trusted and that embassies lack the numbers of British citizens to check documentation. In the Philippines for an example office staff...

Japanese Scientists Grow Teeth In Mice

Scientists in Japan have managed to grow fully functional teeth in mice using stem cells, and are hopeful the same technique can be used to grow human organs in the future. The researchers created a seed...

Now Blood Vessels Can Be Made From Patient's Cells Itself

According to Scientists, for the first time they have succeeded in growing blood vessels from patient’s cells making a great help in tissue engineering. Tubes like veins and reins can made from blood vessels...

Getting to the Root Cause of Grey Hair

  The New York Times had a story this week about President Obama going grey just 44 days into the Whitehouse job.  It happens to the best of them, but it seems that his has been turning incredibly...

Insulin May Treat and Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

A research team from Northwestern University has found that insulin may combat Alzheimer's disease by protecting brain synapses from harm.  After emerging theories that Alzheimer's may actually be a third form...

Alzheimer’s could be treated with epilepsy drug

Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common form of dementia and strikes an increasing number of people.The search to find treatments and cures is on but so far there it has been a fruitless search although some...

Windpipe transplant breakthrough - Stem Cell Therepy to treat serious diseases

In a breakthrough scientists in Spain have used adult stem cells from the recepient of an organ transplant to trick the body into accepting the donated organ without the use of anti-rejection drugs. Under normal surgical procedured involving organ transplantation involving a...

AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured

Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...

What causes cancer? It's all in the genes

DNA mutations are the cause of all cancers. How the DNA becomes mutated is different in different people and leads to variations in cancers. The highlighted article by Dr. Lorne Brandes explains how our genes are...

UK militants 'back jihad'

"LONDON: Thousands of Islamist militants in the UK are actively supporting jihadist activities at home and abroad, according to a leaked Government document.The secret report, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, states that Britain will remain "a high-priority target" for...

Senator Kennedy encourages DEA to provide Medical Marijuana for research

" June 11, 2008, 10:53 am Medical Marijuana Links By John Tierney We’ve been discussing the presidential candidates’ positions on medical marijuana. Here are a couple of other interesting reports...

Artificial trees capture solar and wind energy

" "A London-based startup called Solar Botanic announced yesterday that it has designed lifelike artificial plants and trees that harvest the power of the sun, wind and rain. The key to the company’s claim is its Nanoleaf— a supposed energy-capturing powerhouse....

Microscope shows first hours of developing embryo

A new high-powered microscope has allowed scientists to watch a zebrafish develop from a single cell into an embryo with a beating heart, the first time this has been possible in vertebrates. They created a...

Cause of 'Treeman's' barklike growths revealed

"(CNN) -- For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots. ...

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