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Cancer Research in 2019
Cancer is unbridled growth of abnormal cells in the body. It can occur in almost any organ or tissue, such as the breast, lungs, skin, colon, bones, or nerve tissue. Right now, doctors rely on treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells. There are also more focused methods of treatment that involve blocking […]
Diseases Cured in the Last Five Years
Immunization has saved around 9 million lives a year worldwide two centuries after English physician Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine. Another 16 million lives a year could be saved if effective vaccines were deployed against all potentially vaccine-preventable diseases. So far vaccines have eliminated smallpox, saving approximately 5 million lives a year. In the last […]
New Advances in Biology
We’ve compiled the advanced in biology we found most interesting in brief. These include eradication of a lethal lung disease, a next-generation tool that improves our ability to investigate single cells more thoroughly, and the effect of consuming curcumin (a powder made from the roots of the turmeric plant) on cancer. A team from Penn […]