Health & Medicine
Uganda upset as ‘nodding syndrome’ toll hits 100
11 Jan 2012
DRDO develops anti-radiation medicine from tulsi
10 Jan 2012
DRDO develops anti-radiation medicine from tulsi
10 Jan 2012
New way to stop bleeding
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 10 Jan 2012
MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle
New test spots early signs of inherited metabolic disorders
By By Scott LaFee | 10 Jan 2012
To speed people up, human leg muscle slows down
09 Jan 2012
Booby trap? France pays women to remove implants
26 Dec 2011
Neuroscientists identify a master controller of memory
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 26 Dec 2011
Advanced image analysis furthers retina research
24 Dec 2011
Removable ‘cloak’ for nanoparticles helps target tumours
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 23 Dec 2011
A new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that exploits a trait shared by almost all tumours — they are more acidic than healthy tissues — and can be used to deliver cancer drugs to nearly any type of tumour