Floyd Mayweather Jnr says it took just a week to miss boxingA drug that boosts the body’s production of stem cells appears to "jump-start" the bone-healing process to a point that older adults’ bones heal as fast as young people’s, suggest preliminary results released Tuesday by U.S. researchers. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York gave teriparatide (Forteo) to 145 people...
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Slow-Healing Bones May Get Boost From Drug
Pfizer Cancer Drug Shows Benefits, Shares Rise
A late-stage clinical study of Pfizer Inc’s (PFE) Sutent was halted early after the drug showed significant benefit in patients with a rare form of cancer, the drugmaker said on Thursday, sending its shares up 3.5%. An independent committee monitoring the study recommended halting it after concluding that patients on Sutent stayed free of...
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Nano-treatment to torpedo cancer
Nanotechnology has been used for the first time to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted package of “tumour busting” genes. The technique, which leaves healthy cells unaffected, could potentially offer hope to people with hard-to-treat cancers where surgery is not possible. Although it has only been tested in mice so far, the researchers...
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A step closer to reading the mind
Scientists say for the first time they have understood someone’s thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing. The hippocampus is widely known to be integral to memory, but researchers say they now see just how images are stored and recalled in this part of the brain. Wellcome Trust scientists trained four participants...
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Scientists Mull Future After Carbon Satellite Crash
Nine years of work disappeared in five minutes yesterday when a NASA satellite crashed into the icy waters near Antarctica. Now climate scientists who worked on the ambitious effort to map the world’s carbon dioxide are trying to figure out what comes next. The $278 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory was designed to monitor how...
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Cycling Enters Electronic Age With Gear-Shifting System
The bicycle, one of the world’s most resolutely human-powered machines, will join the long list of devices that have switched from the manual to the electronic when a new gear system makes its debut this weekend at the Tour of California. Although the battery-powered derailleur by Shimano promises to bring ease and accuracy to...
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Scientists begin to decode the history of human evolution
In biology’s most famous book, “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin steered clear of applying his revolutionary theory of evolution to the species of greatest interest to his readers — their own. He couldn’t avoid it forever, of course. He eventually wrote another tome nearly as famous, “The Descent of Man.” But he...
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