Health & Medicine
Are nanodiamond-encrusted teeth the future of dental implants?
By By Brianna Deane | 20 Sep 2013
Wildly heterogeneous genes
19 Sep 2013
New system uses nanodiamonds to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to brain tumours
By By Shaun Mason | 16 Sep 2013
Researchers have developed an innovative drug-delivery system in which tiny particles are used to carry chemotherapy drugs directly into brain tumours
New method for diagnosing anaemia using microwaves could lead to new blood tests
By By Colin Smith | 11 Sep 2013
Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the US alone: study
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 05 Sep 2013
An new study in the US reveals vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to premature deaths
Detecting early-stage malarial infection
By By Elizabeth Dougherty | 17 Aug 2013
Genetic mutations linked to Parkinson's disease
16 Aug 2013
Messenger between gut and brain linked to eating behaviour
By By Bill Hathaway | 16 Aug 2013
New microchip sorts white blood cells from whole blood
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 14 Aug 2013
Scientists have developed a new microchip that can quickly separate white blood cells from samples of whole blood, eliminating any preliminary processing steps to directly analyse patient blood samples for signs of inflammatory disease such as sepsis
How 'obesity gene' triggers weight gain
12 Aug 2013
Real-time MRI-guided gene therapy performed for brain cancer
08 Aug 2013
This new approach offers a precise way to deliver a therapeutic virus designed to make the tumour susceptible to cancer-killing drugs.