Many cancers and Huntington’s are caused by stubborn proteins Ras and Myc No previous studies have been able to kill...
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Controversial ‘liberation therapy’ fails to treat multiple sclerosis
This is an MRI of a person with multiple sclerosis. White areas show permanent scarring caused by the disease. Opening...
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Just 4 minutes of intense cycling can stop cells from ageing quickly, study reveals
High-intensity interval training has a transformative effect on your cells Research by the Mayo Clinic found 4 minutes of cycling...
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‘My £43,000 stem cell therapy in Mexico has transformed me’: MS left BBC war correspondent Caroline Wyatt struggling to walk or even think clearly, but now she has hope
Though it was diagnosed in 2015, Caroline Wyatt has lived with MS for 25 years Increasingly, she lost control of...
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Room-scale or standing VR? Why all that walking around may be overrated
While room-scale VR was a big buzzword in 2016, the peek we got at 2017 Oculus games makes us think physical standing...
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For the First Time, Researchers Can Genetically Modify Human Embryos
IN BRIEF Up until now, no other researcher has ever been granted permission to perform gene editing on early-stage human...
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Reports Of Medical Breakthroughs Often Don’t Prove Out
Journalists like to report what’s new. But what’s new in science often turns out not to be true in the...
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Common yeast may worsen IBD symptoms in Crohn’s disease
June Round, Ph.D. associate professor in pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. During the past decade,...
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Incredible interactive street-view lets you see what it’s like to have glaucoma, cataracts or retinopathy
An interactive map shows you how people with vision problems view the world Options let you see through the lens...
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New material regrows bone
A schematic representation of the experimental design. A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse’s skull by regrowing...