Medscape Staff April 04, 2022 A magnetic slime that can be maneuvered to navigate tight spaces could be used to retrieve items in your body, according to scientists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong who are developing the substance. What to know: The new magnetic slime combines the properties of elastic robots capable of manipulating objects and fluid-based robots that...
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What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder that provokes the individual to focus unduly on flaws in the personal appearance to an extent that it dominates thought, producing severe embarrassment, shame, and anxiety such that the person may even avoid social situations....
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A method to observe cancer cells’ potential to metastasize in the body
by University of Michigan Credit: CC0 Public Domain When cancer cells metastasize, they morph, becoming missile-shaped in order to penetrate into other tissues throughout the body. In fact, to travel throughout the body, metastatic cancer cells must change their phenotypes—their physical characteristics. This change allows stationary, epithelial cells which compose the barriers of our organs...
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Two studies shed light on how, where body can add new fat cells
by UT Southwestern Medical Center An image showing a blood vessel in fat tissue, surrounded by fat progenitor cells (in green). Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Gaining more fat cells is probably not what most people want, although that might be exactly what they need to fight off diabetes and other diseases. How and where the...
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Aging is Contagious within the Body
In the midst of a discussion regarding the limitations of life span studies, in that the use of death as an endpoint fails to capture all of the variances in health due to aging, the authors of this paper offer up the thought that aging is contagious within the body. Declines in one cell spread to another,...
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