Hideyo Noguchi Prize for Africa
The Japanese Government has established the Hideyo Noguchi Prize for Africa in July 2006 to award individuals with outstanding achievements in the field of...
Fungus compounds may slow prostate cancer
A new development in the fight against cancer: Recent research at the University of Haifa found that molecules found in common fungus Ganoderma lucidum...
Dental Researchers Test No-Needle Anesthesia, No-Drilling Cavity Care
Imagine having a decayed tooth repaired, painlessly, without drilling or shots of anesthesia to numb the area. Wishful thinking? Not if two studies being...
A new two-punch strategy against HIV successfully tested in the laboratory
Scientists Devise Approach that Stops HIV at Earliest Stage of Infection
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a new two-punch strategy against HIV...
Scientists Discover New Compound That Kills Drug-Resistant Malaria
Scientists at the Centre for Molecular Design and Preformulations, at Toronto General Hospital created a chemical compound in their laboratory that can bind itself...
The blind can see
They may just have to update the famous nursery rhyme, "Three blind mice."
When Gautam Awatramani took time off to visit friend Botond Roska at...
Data-transfer and near field detection through skin
Skinplex is the key to Ambient Intelligence and covers two basic functions :
- Active communication of data over the skin
- Passive sensing the...
Brilliance iCT, a clear 3D images of an entire organ, including the heart and...
Philips unveils computed tomography (CT) system that scans the heart in two beats to aid in diagnosis and treatment
Philips continues to innovate in...
Functional genomics of colon and kidney carcinomas
These new projects are dealing with the use of DNA microarrays to define genes relevant for tumor biology and clinical outcome. A central gene...
3,000 HIV-negative candidates for HIV vaccine clinical trial
A large-scale clinical trial of a candidate HIV vaccine--which previously showed promise in smaller studies in the United States and elsewhere--has now opened in...
