Category: Technology & Devices
Laser acne treatment
Acne or pimple is basically a condition which is caused by the secretion of the oil sebum in excessive amounts by the sebaceous glands and thereby blocking those pores. There is an array of remedies available for its cure right […]
Botox may slow tumor growth in stomach cancer
Botox has frozen the faces of countless Hollywood stars, and international researchers said Wednesday the toxic injections might also be able to stop cancer in its tracks, at least temporarily. The findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine are based […]
Japanese experts launch project to detect cancer
Japanese researchers have announced a five-year project to develop a diagnostic system that can detect 13 different types of cancer by using tiny molecules in the blood as biomarkers. They expect the system will allow the detection of cancer in […]
This sponge-like polymer could fix facial deformities
Millions of people suffer from facial deformities because an injury, surgery, or birth defect left a gap in their bone structure. These bone gaps are too wide for the body’s normal healing process to fix, and surgical solutions like grafts […]
Computer to help spinal cord injury victims walk
For helping people with spinal cord injury walk better, researchers have made an artificial connection from the brain to the locomotion centre in the spinal cord using a computer interface as bypass. This allowed participants to stimulate the spinal locomotion […]
Local scientists create software to help doctors with rare disease diagnosis
A team of scientists at A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has created a new computer analysis software that cross-references a patient’s symptoms and a person’s genome sequence. The software, Phen-Gen, is the first of its kind and was created […]
New imaging pen helps recognize cancerous skin lesions
A biopsy is the only reliable way to diagnose skin cancer, but having good confidence that a lesion is cancerous before a biopsy can reduce the number of needless biopsies performed. A new tool invented in Austin uses three different […]
Immune cell discovery could help halt cancer spread
Researchers said MCL-1 could be a target for boosting or depleting natural killer cell populations to treat disease. Highly specialised immune cells, called natural killer cells, can play a critical role in killing melanoma cells that have spread to the […]
Synthetic protein offers new hope for male infertility
A research team from Queen’s University led by Richard Oko, has indentified a method of inducing fertilization using a synthetic version of the protein PAWP found in sperm cells. Their findings could circumvent the problem for men whose sperm is […]
I-Limb lends helping hand
At first glance, it might appear as a prop from Cameron’s classic—The Terminator. However, in reality, the robotic hand has been a life saver for millions of people who have lost their upper limbs, either due to a birth defect […]
