Tag: CANCER RESEARCH

Share Most people have always been taught to take anything they read on Wikipedia with a grain of salt. The site's usually pretty reliable for general information, or for those times when you need to sound off on the intricacies of Vulcan law. But its open-source format still leaves it vulnerable to a host of factual inaccuracies that usually deter students or academics from citing the online ...

Hold the phone! No, literally. Hold it away from your head. Award-winning cancer researcher and neurosurgeon Dr. Vini Khurana has some things to say about our use of cell phones, and none of them are good. Having reviewed more than 100 studies of mobile phones' effects on the human brain, Dr. Khurana notes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile ...

From Da Vinci robosurgeons to helpful nursebots , robots are becoming commonplace in hospitals the world over -- and now researchers at Duke University have developed a rudimentary tabletop robot that uses 3D ultrasound technology to detect a 'lesion' in a simulated sponge breast, pinpoint its exact location, and perform a biopsy. All the calculations are performed by the device itself, using ...