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Tag Archives: cancer
MRI Powered Pill-Sized Robot Uses Tail To Swim Through Your Intestines
For years medicine has struggled to kill off all the little parasites swimming inside the human body. Now they’re ready [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, endoscopy, Medical Devices, microrobot, microswimmer
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Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill (video)
Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged cancer, MD Anderson, obesity, prostrate cancer, targeted drug therapy, type 2 diabetes
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Studies Consistently Fail To Show Benefits Of Dietary Supplements – Experts Think It’s Time To Reevaluate
“Don’t forget to take your vitamins?” That healthful reminder from mom may soon become a thing of the past. While [...]
Major Study Shows No Link Between Mobile Phones And Brain Cancer
The largest study of its kind to date found no evidence for a link between mobile phone use and brain [...]
Japanese Researchers Successfully Grow Sperm in Lab – Eventual Cure for Infertility?
In an amazing technical feat researchers in Japan have accomplished something that has stymied the field for the past half [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, genes, Genetics, medicine, regenerative medicine, Stem Cells
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A Liquid Biopsy Test on the Market? A $30 Million Partnership May Finally Make it Happen
As Singularity Hub followers are well aware, it’s an exciting time in cancer screening. We’ve recently highlighted a number of [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, liquid biopsy, microfluidic, microfluidic chip, microfluidic system
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Nanotech Implant Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks, Too
Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States – they’re the two biggest [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged biomarkers, body monitoring, cancer, chtristophoros vassiliou, heart attack, implant, Michael Cima, MIT, monitor, nanoparticles, nanotechnology
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A Smartphone Device that Detects Cancer in Under an Hour
If you’re a smartphone naysayer, here’s some news that might make you drink the Kool-Aid along with nearly half of [...]
Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips: First Viable Medical Lab on a Chip?
We often find out too late what’s happening inside our bodies when it’s stricken by disease or cancer, but those days [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Bio-Nano-Chip, body 2.0, cancer, Diagnostics, heart disease, hiv, Implantable Chip, Medical Devices, Rice University
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Cancer Rates in the US Continue to Drop, ACS Reports
The annual report from the American Cancer Society shows that US cancer death rates continue to decline in both men [...]
New Cancer Vaccine Kills Lymphoma, Now in Phase III Clinical Trials
Why fight cancer with chemotherapy or radiation when you can teach the immune system to do it for you? Sound [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Accentia, BiovaxID, Biovest, cancer, immune system, NHL, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, vaccine
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Radiation Robots Fry Cancer Cells With Ultra-High Precision (video)
Radiation therapy may be a great way to kill a tumor, but when doctors zap cancer cells they end up [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged Accuray, cancer, Cyberknife, radiation surgery, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, RapidArc, TomoTherapy, TrueBeam, Varian
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Coverage of Caltech’s “Cancer Fighting” Nanoparticles is Over-Hyped and Premature
Maybe you’ve read about the amazing “cancer-killing nanobots” from Caltech that use RNA as a weapon. They’ve been making waves [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Arrowhead Research, Calando, Caltech, cancer, hype, melanoma, nanobot, nanoparticle, over-hyped, phase I trial, RONDEL
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New Cancer Detector Chip Works in About 30 Minutes
So there’s this period of time during a visit to the doctor’s when you’re left alone in the office. You [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged ACS, biosensor, cancer, lab on a chip, nanowires, Nature Nanotechnology, nucleic probes, Shana Kelley, University of Toronto
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CDC Report: Americans Living Longer, But Not As Long as Everyone Else
With the ongoing health care debate raging across the US, it’s good to know that we lived slightly longer in [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, CDC, diabetes, heart disease, longevity, NCHS, obesity, Terry Grossman
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MIT and Harvard Monitoring Cancer Tumors With an Implant
Worried about the government spying on you through implants? Well, I don’t know if your dental fillings are secret radios, [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged biopsy, cancer, center, excellence, excision, Harvard, implants, Michael J. Cima, MIT, surgery, Technology
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Stem Cell Therapy Must Continue In Spite of Cancer Setback
The first known report of a brain tumor resulting directly from neural stem cell therapy was published yesterday. The report [...]