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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 16, 2018
"This week we saw a chimeric robot with a doglike body and a snakelike head break out of a Boston lab, learned about molecular machines that can be programmed to starve tumors of blood, and learned about a blood test that can help doctors detect concussion. All this progress makes us feel sanguine about science.
 

Who Let The Dogs Out?
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
Carlos Haertel
January 05, 2018
"A robot in California is acting like a total baby, researchers in the U.K. smuggled a tumor-tracing virus into patients’ brains, and plants in Australia are breeding like rabbits. We’d say 2018 is off to a promising start.
 

Going Viral
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 22, 2017
Researchers at DARPA flew a helicopter with a tablet, a team led by MIT used sound waves to analyze blood for cancer, and scientists in Texas developed artificial skin for robots that could give them a sense of touch. We can't stop the feeling that science is making progress.
 

Liquid Biopsy

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 15, 2017
Researchers in Philadelphia figured out why eating fewer calories can lead to longer lives, scientists in Shanghai built a tiny power plant that uses blood flow to generate electricity inside the body, and a team in Seattle set a record by transmitting information across 1.7 miles with “almost zero power.” We roger that, science.
 

Staying Alive
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future of healthcare

Gut Check: This Smart Capsule Is Making Colon-Cancer Screening Easier To Swallow

Tomas Kellner
August 14, 2017
Turning 50 isn’t the end of the world, sources say. But it is time for a colonoscopy. The “prep” for this middle-age ritual typically involves a liquid diet the day leading up to the appointment capped with a laxative or enema. When the colon is clear, doctors insert a flexible tube with a camera through the digestive track’s bottom end and use it look for polyps and cancer. The procedure typically requires sedation.
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Cancer

This Device Helps Cancer Patients Fight Radiation’s Side Effects

P D Olson
May 30, 2017
Tammy Woodhams was desperate to get back to her job at the National Criminal Justice Association in Washington, D.C. But there was a problem. Part of her face and neck had swollen up so much that she was almost unrecognizable, and it was difficult for her to move and talk.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

February 17, 2017
Scientists successfully attacked cancer with rabies, built an artificial eagle eye from 3D-printed cameras the size of a grain of salt and tapped MIT students to make their scheduling AI smarter. Scheduling? Now that’s a real head-scratcher.
 

 

A Wild Way To Treat Cancer With Rabies
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 27, 2017
Scientists successfully grew human stem cells inside a pig for the first time, built an AI that rivals dermatologists in spotting skin cancer and created a metal out of hydrogen — a material so unique it could act as a superconductor at room temperature. Science is so hot!
 

This AI Can Rival Doctors In Spotting Skin Cancer 
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Cancer

This Paris Clinic Can Diagnose Breast Cancer In A Single Day

Tomas Kellner
November 29, 2016
The suburb of Villejuif in the south of Paris will never rival the Eiffel Tower as a destination site. Yet every day the brightly lit waiting rooms and cavernous hallways of the Gustave Roussy clinic located here fill with hundreds of visitors. Some of them have traveled thousand of miles in pursuit of hope.
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Cancer

Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound's New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 28, 2016
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms her doctor said she needed to follow up with a needle biopsy. Something was wrong.
She got the dreaded news a few days later while waiting for her luggage in the Washington D.C. airport: it was invasive breast cancer.
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