How Cancer Cells Get Their Food: A New Theory
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According to a new theory, cancer cells survive by getting healthy cells around it  to self destruct by releasing hydrogen peroxide. This self-destruction releases nutrients that feed the cancer cells.
Just how do the cancer cells …

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Colon Cleansing Washes Out
Friday, 12 Aug, 2011 – 3:33 | No Comment
Colon Cleansing Washes Out

Colon cleansing – it sounds therapeutic and harmless – after all, what could be harmful in flushing out the colon with water and herbal products? Claims suggest that flushing out the colon regularly will “detoxify” …

Treatment for Down Syndrome?
Monday, 1 Aug, 2011 – 3:30 | No Comment
Treatment for Down Syndrome?

In the past, a child born with Down Syndrome (trisomy 21) was felt to have little chance of improving brain function until Dr. Alberto Costa, a physician and neuroscientist had  a personal interest in studying …

Spina Bifida: Operating on Fetuses
Wednesday, 13 Jul, 2011 – 3:00 | No Comment
Spina Bifida: Operating on Fetuses

Correcting birth defects in utero is becoming more and more possible as this news report from National Public Radio (NPR) explained this week. In this report, at 19 weeks gestation, the expecting parents discovered that …

Bacteria Play Dead to Survive Against Antibiotics
Friday, 1 Jul, 2011 – 3:10 | No Comment
Bacteria Play Dead to Survive Against Antibiotics

Just how does bacteria manage to evade death from antibiotics? This new research shows that bacteria outfoxes antibiotics by going into a coma-like state by “exposing themselves to near suicidal levels of their own toxins” …

Surgically Implanted Electrodes Help Paralyzed Man Move Legs
Monday, 27 Jun, 2011 – 2:33 | No Comment
Surgically Implanted Electrodes Help Paralyzed Man Move Legs

Paralyzed from the chest down in 2006 from a car accident, 26 year old Rob Summers is able to stand for the first time, unassisted for brief periods following the placement of electrodes in his …

Prescription Drug Abusers Switch to Other Street Drugs
Sunday, 12 Jun, 2011 – 2:53 | No Comment
Prescription Drug Abusers Switch to Other Street Drugs

This article published in the NY Times shows that the reformulated version of OxyContin, which turns to pasty substance when altered, has prompted more people to turn to other, easier to get drugs of addiction …

Protein Can Stimulate Stem Cells in Heart to Regenerate
Friday, 10 Jun, 2011 – 3:05 | No Comment
Protein Can Stimulate Stem Cells in Heart to Regenerate

In this image of heart cells in a mouse that has had a heart attack, some of the red cells are new cells generated to repair the heart attack damage.
Scientists discovered that mice who received …

In NIH-Funded Trial, Man with Spinal Cord Injury Stands after Specialized Physical Therapy and Spinal Stimulation
Friday, 3 Jun, 2011 – 3:05 | No Comment
In NIH-Funded Trial, Man with Spinal Cord Injury Stands after Specialized Physical Therapy and Spinal Stimulation

This article showcases some of the research currently being done at National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. It was published recently on the National Institutes of Health website.
Scientists funded in part by the National Institutes of Health …

New Device Detects Bedbugs
Wednesday, 1 Jun, 2011 – 3:00 | No Comment
New Device Detects Bedbugs

          Bedbugs which are on the rise again in the U.S., are notoriously hard to kill largely because they are so hard to detect. They hide in crevices and cracks and unlike cockroaches, don’t respond …

Mapping Human Microbes
Monday, 23 May, 2011 – 3:12 | 2 Comments
Mapping Human Microbes

Washington University is part of group who is studying the microbes that live on and in us with their research specifically focusing on a killer of premature babies, necrotizing enterocolitis, a condition in which the …