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Jellyfish-Inspired Microchip Captures Cancer Cells
The mesmerising movements of jellyfish have inspired researchers to design all sorts of things, from mechatronic jellyfish that function as autonomous robots to artificial jellyfish built from rat...
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South Korea Rules That a Samsung Chip Plant Gave Its Employee Cancer
Just when it thought allegations of poor working conditions were grounded, Samsung has been accused by the South Korean government of running a chip plant that causes cancer. The Korea Workers’...
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Squeezing Boobs Can Stop Breast Cancer
If you need another excuse to show some love to the mammaries, scientists have found that squeezing breasts can actually prevent malignant breast cells from triggering cancer. Yes, squeezing. Guys and...
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Illuminating Brain Tumours With Scorpion Toxins Could Save Lives
Up until now, removing brain tumours has been a fairly imprecise—and thus highly dangerous—art. Cancerous tissue in the brain looks almost exactly like healthy tissue, and being just one millimeter off...
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This Man Actually Had Hairs Growing Out of His Eyeball
Now, I’ve seen my fair share of horrifying eye conditions, but this one takes the biscuit. It’s not quite worm-in-the-eye Prometheus-style, but this poor bloke actually had long, super creepy, hairs...
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This Single Molecule Drives Cancer Cells to Suicide
A team of researchers has identified a single molecule, called TIC10, that kick-starts the body’s tumour-destroying systems — causing a chain reaction that can kill cancer dead. In a series of...
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Your Awful Breath Has Its Own Fingerprint
The next time you wake up with morning breath, you can take pride that though it smells bad, no one else’s is quite like yours. According to a recent study, you’ve got a “breathprint” that is not only...
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Here’s a 120,000 Year Old Tumour Found Inside a Neanderthal
Neanderthals weren’t smoking cigarettes. They weren’t breathing in pollution. They weren’t eating processed foods. They weren’t dealing with pesticides. Nope. But apparently, Neanderthals still got...
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Doctors Could Soon Be Diagnosing Skin Cancer Based on Smell Alone
We’ve known for awhile that certain illnesses can have a very, er, special smell for the olfactory-inclined, but even us humans (with the help of smell-sensitive technology) could soon be diagnosing...
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The Insane Cancer Machines That Used to Live in Shoe Shops Everywhere
Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put ‘em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people’s feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon,...
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This Revolutionary Smart Scalpel Can Smell Cancer as It Cuts
Cancer surgery is invariably difficult, in part, because doctors have always had a hard time determining exactly where the healthy tissue ends and the tumour begins. Not anymore. A new “intelligent...
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Science Has Almost Beaten Testicular Cancer
Testicular cancer used to be a brutal condition with a low survival rate, but that’s all changed in recent years thanks to improved treatment. While just over half of patients survived a half century...
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New Cancer Treatment Kills the Bad Cells with Nanoparticles and Lasers
Fighting cancer is getting very 22nd century with the introduction of a new technique from researchers at the University of Georgia. The science of it gets a little bit complicated, but suffice it to...
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This Tiny Implantable Sponge Could Help Cure Skin Cancer
It almost sounds too good to be true: Researchers have developed a tiny sponge that can reprogram immune cells to attack cancer. The treatment is less invasive than surgery and potentially more...
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Other Kitchen Devices Can Harness Power from Your Microwave
When your microwave is sitting there glowing and spinning inside, do you ever wonder where all those stray rays of energy go? Turns out they usually just slip out the door, into thin air. But a...
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Dentists May Start Covering Teeth in Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust
Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterial in town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker,...
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Cancer Causing Compound From Cigarettes Found in Fried Foods. Fantastic…
More bad news from the FDA in the US. Turns out frying, baking or roasting certain foods causes the formation of acrylamide, a carcinogen found in cigarette smoke. Why does death always have to taste...
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This Table Detects Breast Cancer Using Sound Waves, Not X-Rays
Traditional mammography machines—besides being uncomfortable—rely on ionising radiation to image a patient’s breasts. As all we all know, radiation ironically increases the risk of cancer developing....
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The World’s Oldest Tumour is 11,000 Years Old and Spread By Dog Sex
Somewhere 11,000 years ago, something weird happened to a dog. It got cancer—and the really damn freaky part is that the cancer could survive even outside of its canine host. That unknown dog is long...
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Scientists Turned Fruit Flies into Glowing Cancer Detectors
One of the most exciting findings in cancer research is the ability to identify cancerous cells by the volatile odour molecules they give off. Diagnostic machines, scalpels, and even specially trained...
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