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Implantable medical devices such as hearing aids or pacemakers are of huge value, but keeping them charged up can involve clunky external power sources or repeated invasive surgeries to replace depleted batteries. Scientists in Saudi Arabia are putting… Continue reading Biocompatible battery for medical implants is charged via ultrasound
One of the real and dangerous consequences of plastic waste making its way into ocean is the increasing threat it poses to marine life. Sea turtles are one example of a creature that regularly consume these pieces of trash for dinner, and a new study o… Continue reading “Olfactory trap” lures sea turtles into eating plastic waste
Immunotherapy is an increasingly powerful form of cancer treatment where the patient’s own immune system is equipped with heightened abilities to take down the disease, and one promising arm of this is known as adoptive cell therapy. This involves usin… Continue reading Edited bone marrow cells trigger “striking” tumor regression in mice
Vaccines have become an indispensable medical tool that offer protection from an ever-increasing range of diseases, but these living strains of viruses need to be kept cool to be effective. This is a real problem when it comes to distributing them to r… Continue reading Edible vaccines stored in cheap, easily transportable dissolving films
Plastic pollution is a monumental issue and one that isn’t going away anytime soon, but researchers are opening up new possibilities around how we could chip away at the problem. Scientists working in this area at Canada’s Brandon University have made … Continue reading The hungry gut bacteria that enable waxworms to live on plastic waste
They mightn’t seem like the most obvious places to look, but the venom of deadly creatures like spiders, snakes and scorpions are an increasingly rich source of medicines for human health. The latest example of this comes from scientists at Fred Hutchi… Continue reading Scorpion venom protein reverses inflammation in rats with arthritis
A small but promising study carried out at University of Arizona has uncovered some interesting possibilities around treatment for common concussion symptoms. The researchers found that by subjecting people with a mild brain injury to a dose of blue li… Continue reading Blue light lowers depression for concussion sufferers in early study
NASA has used Curiosity’s cameras to capture many images of Mars since touching down on the Red Planet seven years ago, but none quite as detailed as this. Its latest panorama of Mars is the highest-resolution version that NASA has ever put together, s… Continue reading NASA’s Curiosity rover captures most detailed panorama of Mars yet
An imaginative new approach to bridge-building was demonstrated for the first time in Austria last week, where engineers have connected the opposing sides of two rivers with a novel construction method likened to opening an umbrella. These unfolding br… Continue reading Unfolding highway bridge unfurls like an umbrella
Immunotherapy has emerged as a powerful tool in the fight against cancer, but there are still many ways for the disease to elude its advances. One trick cancer cells use to evade an attack is to shield themselves behind a particular type of healthy cel… Continue reading Scar tissue drug dismantles cancer’s defences to boost immunotherapy