Medicine

Artificial blood could soon become a reality thanks to the first successful human transfusion. Dr. Luc Douay of the Parisian University 'Pierre et Marie Curie' extracted stem cells from bone marrow and 'encouraged' them to grow and transform into blood cells by administering a cocktail of factors ...

A group of British neuroscientists has discovered that it is possible to establish a two-way 'conversation' with people in a permanent vegetative state, thanks to a device already present everywhere that can read their brain activity. Researchers have noted that some individuals in this state are able to understand ...

Have you always dreamed of having a beautiful pair of blue eyes, but were you born with dark eyes? A Californian doctor has patented and developed a method that can change dark eyes to blue (forever) in just 20 seconds. How does Lumineyes work? Some images of the Lumineyes application ...

If you're still not convinced that stem cells are the future of medicine, get this: A group of Japanese researchers used stem cells to synthesize a new, fully functional organ in the laboratory, starting from ZERO. This is the research team of the RIKEN Center for the ...

As we all know there is a phase in the development of this pathology that renders its course deadly: when cancer cells multiply and spread to other organs, creating metastases, it is almost impossible to face and win the battle for the survival of a patient. Recent studies by ...

Time passes, technologies and methods improve, and things that just seemed impossible are surprisingly at hand: it is appropriate to say, given the incredible new bionic arm born from the collaboration between the American universities of Pittsburgh and John Hopkins. It is a leap ...

IBM and the Singapore Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have designed a new type of polymer capable of detecting and destroying antibiotic-resistant bacteria and preventing their evolution. The most interesting feature of this nanostructure is that it is biodegradable and does not accumulate in the tissues: it can be ...

Professor Michael Ristow and his Japanese colleagues from the Universities of Oita and Hiroshima have shown in two different tests that even low concentrations of Lithium lead to a considerable increase in longevity in humans as well as in other organisms (in this case a type of worm, Caenorhabditis elegans.): ...