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October 04, 2017, 10:11

Making surgical screws from bones

Biomechanics from TU Graz are developing surgical screws from donated human bone material for foot and jaw surgery in a FFG-funded project together with surgebright, a start-up from Linz.

medical and health

October 04, 2017, 09:16

World's first super-microsurgery operation with 'robot hands'

Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to surgically treat lymphedema in a patient. This is the world's first super-microsurgical intervention with 'robot hands'.

medical and health

October 03, 2017, 11:08

Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines

A team of researchers has engineered smart protein molecules that can reprogram white blood cells to ignore a self-defense signaling mechanism that cancer cells use to survive and spread in the body.

science

October 02, 2017, 10:48

New Class of Molecules May Protect Brain from Stroke, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered a new class of molecules in the brain that synchronize cell-to-cell communication and neuroinflammation/immune activity in response to injury or diseases.

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October 02, 2017, 10:44

Diabetes medicine reduces Parkinson’s risk

A UiB-study shows that the taking of diabetes medicine reduces the risk of getting Parkinson´s disease.

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September 29, 2017, 12:34

Eligo Bioscience Secures $20 Million Series A from Khosla Ventures and Seventure to Bring Precision Medicine to the Microbiome

French biotech company has produced the first biotherapeutic nanobots to engineer the microbiome.

biotech

September 28, 2017, 10:16

NEW SELF-POWERED PAPER PATCH COULD HELP DIABETICS MEASURE GLUCOSE DURING EXERCISE

One-time use paper-based device attaches directly to skin

medical and health

September 28, 2017, 09:29

Discovery helps engineer more accurate Cas9s for CRISPR editing

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a key region within the Cas9 protein that governs how accurately CRISPR-Cas9 homes in on a target DNA sequence, and have tweaked it to produce a hyper-accurate gene editor with the lowest level of off-target cutting to date.

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