For the past few weeks, there has been understandable excitement that vaccines to inoculate people against the Covid-19 virus have […]
For the past few weeks, there has been understandable excitement that vaccines to inoculate people against the Covid-19 virus have […]
Seven years ago, we explored the promise of nanotechnology and highlighted a UK startup called Endomagnetics that had developed a novel product to detect […]
When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the axillary lymph nodes are sometimes removed surgically or treated by radiotherapy. […]
Apitherapy is a branch of alternative medicine dating back thousands of years, in which honeybee products – such as pollen, propolis, […]
The title for today’s blog has been adapted from an editorial highlighting a paper that appeared this week in Science Translational Medicine, […]
Seven years ago, we reviewed the progress in developing a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. Thought to be […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Many of us, as children, probably experimented with a magnifying glass in which the sun’s rays were focused on a […]
Up until 25 years ago, it was believed that a mature brain was unable to grow new neurons, and that […]
When Jeff Bezos (seen right, © Bloomberg) established an online bookstore 25 years ago, nobody could have imagined the way the company […]