Medical Breakthrough – Page 27

Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Biomedicine: Self-Healing, Recyclable Electronic Skin

February 13, 2018

A section of the electronic skin developed by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Biomedicine just took another leap forward. University of Colorado Boulder scientists created so-called electronic skin—e-skin for short. The e-skin is a thin, semi-transparent material that can act like your skin through measuring temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow. The new material, which was detailed in a study published Friday in Science Advances,could make better prosthetics, improve the safety of robots in the future and aid development of other biomedical devices.

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Biotech, Medical Breakthrough, Stem cells

The end of root canals: Stem cell fillings trigger teeth to repair themselves, research study claims

February 1, 2018

Wouldn’t it be great if your teeth could heal themselves without the need of a painful root canal?

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Cancer, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough

Cancer jab that eliminates tumours from body even after they’ve spread to start human trials

February 1, 2018

Stanford University said the drug combination worked ‘startlingly well’

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Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, Stem cells

Newly FDA-approved platform will rapidly “manufacture” stem cells to repair our bodies

January 31, 2018

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic have received FDA approval for a platform that can manufacture stem cells by the billions in just days, in contrast to previous methods of making stem cells that took months.

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Biotech, China, Medical Breakthrough

Monkeys have been successfully cloned in China, but you might not like the reason why

January 27, 2018

It’s now been over two decades since scientists in Scotland successfully cloned a sheep and named the newborn Dolly. In the years since, the technology that powers cloning has advanced slowly but steadily, and while many scientists fear the inevitability that one day a human clone will be created, others are pushing the field into new areas. The latest example of cloning’s ceaseless march forward is the birth of Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong, a pair of baby monkeys that are the byproduct of the first successful somatic cell nuclear transfer performed with primates.

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Analysis, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough

Stool-sample-sniffin’ electronic nose detects diseases

January 7, 2018

Typically, colon-related illnesses such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are diagnosed via invasive tests. Thanks to a new “electronic nose,” however, it may soon be possible to detect such disorders by analyzing a whiff of the patient’s feces.

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Cancer, cutting edge, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

Is chemo at the heart of cancer regrowth?

December 29, 2017

Some cancers are difficult to beat, even with modern drugs. New research sheds light on how one type of chemotherapy provides a safe haven for tumor cells, boosting cancer recurrence and growth in the long-run.

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Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough

Scientists discover a way to prevent stem cell loss and improve tissue regeneration

December 24, 2017

Stem Cells and Aging

The stem cells found within the average adult human are capable of restoring dying cells while also fixing damaged tissue. Nothing is safe from the aging process, though, and as we get older we begin to lose the very same stem cells that once kept our bodies in functional condition. But there could be a way around that: new stem cell research has revealed a nutrient sensing pathway called TOR can be subdued in order to prevent such loses. TOR plays a key role in the aging process and is largely responsible for the loss of stem cells in the human body.

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Augmented Reality, Breakthrough Thinking, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, Virtual Reality

Virtual reality lets scientists walk around inside cancer cells, set to revolutionize medicine

December 27, 2017

Virtual reality allows scientists to walk inside cancer cells. Imagine being able to walk around inside a virtual replica of your own cells.

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Biotech, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

Instead of killing bacteria, can we just ‘turn off’ it’s ability to cause infection

December 19, 2017

Researchers could have an answer to antibiotic resistance, and it involves using epigenetics to reprogram bacteria.

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Fashion, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough

A 20 second laser procedure that turns brown eyes blue

December 12, 2017

Considering that blue eyes feature quite significantly in pop culture, it is surprising that only 17% of the world’s population actually have them.

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DNA, Healthcare, Medical Breakthrough, Medicine

An organism that regenerates could allow us to heal humans

December 1, 2017

The gecko’s remarkable ability to regenerate its tail in the space of a month could help scientists figure out how to heal spine injuries in humans, and it’s all down to the regenerative ability of stem cells.

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