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...
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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...
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A woman in Florida faked a miscarriage with 'animal tissue', which was discovered when emergency services responded to her call just before 8am this morning. They arrived and then learned that she had faked the miscarriage, but it not known at this point why she did...
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A team of archaeologists excavating a site named Heslington East discovered a skull containing a yellow substance that is believed to be a fossilized brain. The site that the skull was...
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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...
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Two considerable breakthroughs in the fight against breast cancer - a new diagnostic tool can detect tumours that mammograms may miss, and intense radiation treatment can be just as effective for early onset...
created by Terri Potratz | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 358 views | 35 recommendations | 10 comments
It seems small businesses are having to take up the slack for a government that only gives lip service to the phrase "support our troops". Here is a story from Central Texas, home to Fort Hood, the largest army post in the United States and the only two-division post in...
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"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones. Louis and...
"Three years after the world’s first partial face transplant, significant progress has been made with two further successful operations. A 30-year-old man who had part of his face torn off by a bear and another with a disfiguring tumour have had their quality of life...
Nature continues to provide us with cures for all manner of things and this breakthrough could see thousands of lives saved as the seaweed gel helps form scar tissue as the heart heals. Even more lives could...
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Do these companies think of the Acronym first then try to make up words to fit to it."A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. ...
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"Wang Cheng, 24, cannot work or even wear trousers because of the grotesque and painful elephantiasis which has dogged her since the age of six and left her with legs weighing 50 kilos. "I cannot go out to work,"...
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""Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws. Trichobatrachus...
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The international black market for illegal organs and transplants is a frightening, disturbing, and almost sci-fi-esque aspect of our contemporary world, especially when the bodysnatching extends to celebrity...
"A consultant surgeon has been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding two insurance companies through a bogus breast cancer claim.
Emad Massoud, 52, from Ratoath in Co Meath, used a cancerous tissue sample from his mother-in-law to claim that his wife had...