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More Accurate Dosing for Cancer Chemotherapy

Physiology of Nephron
Dosing a cancer patient with carboplatin is a tricky business: too little can be ineffective; too much and [MORE]

Lab Grown Artificial Bile Ducts

Artificial Bile Ducts
Several years ago, researchers in Wake Forest University’s Regenerative Medicine Program grew urethras for five boys and successfully [MORE]

Growing Mouse Embryos from Stem Cells

Mouse
For the first time, researchers at the University of Cambridge have created mouse embryo from stem cells in the lab. [MORE]

Nano Motor for Internal Robots?

 
Expanding Polymer-Coated Gold Nanoparticles
Physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge) have created a nano-scale “piston engine” that might, one [MORE]

Bladder Control with a Biorobot

Urinary Bladder
Patients with severe spinal cord injury, who have lost the ability to walk often lose control of their bladder [MORE]

Profiling Prostate Cancer

Lab Technologist
The PSA assay for prostate cancer is notoriously inaccurate, opening the way for a better diagnostic of this major [MORE]

Testing Quality in Stored Blood

Blood banks store blood for up to 42 days, but studies in England show that transfused blood older than [MORE]