New pain reliever may help combat opioid abuse
The new pain drug binds to a receptor on cells throughout the central nervous system called the sigma 2 receptor…
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Gastric acid can be destructive to orally administered drugs such as antibiotics and protein-based pharmaceuticals…
Handheld spectral analyzer turns smartphone into diagnostic tool
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Scientists are getting closer to using pig organs for human transplants
I fail to understand the significance of this [infectivity] unless it is shown that it can cause some kind of disease…
Researchers develop technology to make aged cells younger
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Is chronic fatigue syndrome an inflammatory disease?
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2-years-old girl becomes one of the youngest patients in the world to trial a breakthrough chemotherapy drug
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Sixteen genetic markers can cut a life story short
While the environment in which we live -- including our socio-economic status or the food we eat -- plays the biggest part, about 20 to 30% of the variation in human lifespan comes down to our genome…
Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins
As the researchers switch the magnetic field’s direction back and forth, it causes the arms of the nano-swimmer to rotate and propel it forward, just like the arms of a human swimmer doing the front crawl…
Researchers created soft artificial heart from silicone
It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial heart: to mimic its natural model as closely as possible...
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