New nanodevice to improve cancer treatment monitoring

In less than a minute, a miniature device can measure a patient's blood for methotrexate, a commonly used but potentially toxic cancer drug. More...

Treatment for osteoporosis, bone cancer, employed for the first time in dental filling procedures

Researchers have demonstrated how the use of zoledronic acid, in combination with bioactive ion-releasing resin-based restorative materials used as dental adhesive, reduces the degradation of dentin collagen and promotes remineralisation at the resin-dentine interface. More...

New front in war on Alzheimer's, other protein-linked brain diseases

Proteins must fold into the right 3-D structure to work, and the body produces many chaperone molecules to refold misfolded proteins. More...

A glimpse into the 3-D brain: How memories form

People who wish to know how memory works are forced to take a glimpse into the brain. 
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