Posts Tagged ‘medicine’

Big day for some scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and UC-San Francisco who have managed to succeed in isolating stem cells from human testes. That means, they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body.

According to the study, the testes stem cells have different patterns of [...]

The Deep-Freeze Organ Transplant

Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized Monday Nov 24,2008

Needing an organ transplant is a lot of hassle – in fact, if it wasn’t life or death you probably wouldn’t bother. Problem is, it is. You might wait for years and when comes along you’ve got about 12 hours to get it all hooked up before there’s no point. A new method which is [...]

Cryopreservation Will Help Women And Endangered Species

Author: admin | Filed under: Bioscience & Medicine Thursday Sep 11,2008

We’ve all seen science fiction movies where people traveling great distances in space were sleeping in “refrigerators” that kept them at the same age when they woke up as they were at the start of the journey hundreds of years ago. Scientists have been working at transforming this technique into reality.  Even though they are far [...]

Batteries Based on Sweat and Human Blood

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Nanotech, Research Wednesday Aug 20,2008

U.S. researchers have created a new electric battery, capable of operating on human blood or sweat.  In structure the battery is similar to a simple piece of black paper.  Researchers have produced a molecular structure formed in proportion of 90% of pulp and proportion of 10% of nano-tubes of carbon that plays the role of [...]

3D Mammograms to Increase Breast Cancer Detection

Author: admin | Filed under: Bioscience & Medicine Sunday Jul 6,2008

Scientists have managed to develop stereo mammograms that can help increase detection of breast cancer by 23 percent while the false alarms percent decreases with 46 percent. We all know that mammograms aren’t very comfortable and apparently not always that accurate, so it looks like this new method in the works is welcomed.
“It’s a major [...]

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