News tagged with facial cancer

Race to save the devil Down Under

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An 'immortal' devil's genome and the secrets of a cancer that's catching

Researchers reporting in the February 17th issue of the Cell Press journal Cell have sequenced the complete genome of one immortal devil. The genomes of the Tasmanian devil and its transmissible cancer may he ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

High-performance engineering used to design facial bone replacements

Scientists are using the engineering technology behind the creation of high-performance aircraft components to design 3-D models for the replacement of delicate and complex facial bones lost to cancer surgery ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Marketing a 'spoonful of sugar'

Your kids won't wear their seatbelts, take their vitamins or brush their teeth? A new study by Tel Aviv University offers a simple formula that will get better compliance in the kid department -- and has implications for ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Alcohol-induced flushing is a risk factor for esophageal cancer from alcohol consumption

There is growing evidence, say researchers in this week's PLoS Medicine, that people who experience facial flushing after drinking alcohol are at much higher risk of esophageal cancer from alcohol consumption than those ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0