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DARPA’s New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40%
IN BRIEF An international team of scientists has created a non-invasive device that stimulates the brain to improve cognitive function. In tests on macaques, it ... -
“Self-regulating” nanoparticles can burn cancer without harming healthy cells
by John Biggs Researchers at the University of Surrey and Dalian University of Technology in China have created a form of nanoparticle that can heat ... -
Researchers Find “Executioner Protein” That Causes Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct Without Hurting Healthy Cells
Scientists have discovered a way to use the "executioner protein" BAX to induce apoptosis in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. The treatment has ... -
Clinical Trials of a New “Cancer Vaccine” Show That It May Actually Work
A new personalized cancer vaccine has been designed to target 20 mutated proteins unique to each patient's tumors. The vaccine seems to have prevented early ... -
Cure For Cancer Found? Brain Tumors Disappear In Patient Receiving CAR-T Cell Therapy
BY CHRIS RIOTTA 2016 brought along a bevy of medical research breakthroughs among the international scientific community, from HIV and AIDs prevention to new findings ... -
Stool transplants, Do they help lose excess weight?
Fecal transplants already emerge to be helping treat the hospital-acquired superbug C. Difficile, and they're also being assessed against ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. ... -
There's A Hormone That Burns Fat And Keeps It Off — And Scientists Have Proven ...
BY MICHAEL RODIO Irisin, the flab-fighting hormone, is triggered by working up a sweat, according to new research. As far as raw science is concerned, ... -
Cell Protein Offers New Hope in Fighting the Effects of Aging
NEUROSCIENCE NEWS Summary: A new study could be the first step to developing drugs that targets carbonic anhydrase in mitochondria to help protect against aging ... -
'Breakthrough' lung cancer drug made available on NHS
About 300 patients in England and Wales eligible for drug that can lead to ‘unprecedented’ reduction in tumours A last-chance drug that can lead to ...