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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a wound treatment method that seems to help the body regrow healthy, scar-free skin. Although the body has an amazing regenerative capacity, it cannot regrow completely normal, healthy skin – when wounds heal, damaged skin is replaced by scar tissue. Scar tissue is not like healthy skin. Although [...]

Here is a video from a TEDx conference in Iowa City. TED is an organization that sponsors amazing lecture series on emerging trends. Topics include medicine, art, agriculture, technology, business, and more. The “x” after TED stands for an independently organized conference in the spirit of TED, which promotes “ideas worth spreading”. The following video [...]

Turkish doctors are returning to a more traditional treatment for post-operative recovery: Islamic music therapy. It has been used for more than 1,000 years to treat many types of suffering. Historical anecdote, however, is not sufficient evidence for hospitals worldwide do adopt musical modalities. Many want scientific proof. Professor Bingur Sonmez and Dr Erol Can of Memorial [...]

Melanoma Metastasis Cancer is bad news – especially when it mobilizes from one body part to another. Scientists call this migration of cancer cell metastasis. Interestingly, not all cancers do this. Some cancers never leave their place of origin. To figure out what makes a cell pack up and leave home, scientists have looked to genes for [...]

  Enjoy this informative video on how Avastin works, brought to you by the US manufacturer, Genentech.