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Scientists testing swimming 'microbots' to deliver meds to lung tumors
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 hours ago"This enhanced distribution and...survival efficacy." However, the research is preliminary and...
Honeybees have the power to detect lung cancer from your breath: Study
Interesting Engineering· 15 hours agoThis isn’t the first time scientists have explored animals’ amazing olfactory abilities for cancer...
Only 1 in 20 animal studies results in treatments approved for humans
UPI· 2 hours agoOnly 5% of therapies tested in animals wind up being approved by regulators for human use, according...
Honeybees can detect lung cancer by smelling a person's breath, research shows
PhillyVoice.com· 1 day ago"Insects have an amazing sense of smell the same way dogs do," said Debajit Saha, an assistant...
Lung cancer: Why non-smokers don't respond to treatments
Medical News Today· 2 days agoResearchers report that people who have never smoked are less likely to respond to standard...
Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
The Economist· 3 hours agoFor regulatory bodies around the world, treatments that might save human lives must be proven safe...
Wildlife SOS presenter Simon Cowell dies aged 72
Press Association News via AOL· 4 days agoIn 2005, he was made an MBE for services to wildlife and frequently appeared in the media discussing environmental matters and promoting conservationism....
Lung-targeted CRISPR therapy offers hope for cystic fibrosis
New Scientist· 2 days agoThe approach has succeeded in editing DNA in hard-to-reach lung stem cells in mice, with...
Rare beaked whale found dead on Jersey Shore beach
PhillyVoice.com· 24 hours agoA rarely seen species of beaked whale was found dead Thursday morning on a beach in Monmouth County, prompting an investigation into what led to the ...
Swimming microrobots deliver cancer-fighting drugs to metastatic lung tumors in mice
Science Daily· 3 days agoThe microrobots are an ingenious combination of biology and nanotechnology. To create the microrobots, researchers chemically attached drug-filled nanoparticles to the surface of green algae ...