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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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