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New test identifies bowel disease
16 July 2010 12:53Patients who are most likely to have inflammatory bowel disease can forego expensive and invasive endoscopies thanks to a simple screening test, a study has revealed.
Lab-grown lungs 'work in animals'
14 July 2010 01:12Researchers in the US used "seeded" cells to grow lungs in the laboratory, which functioned for up to six hours when transplanted into rats.
'Tau' link to Alzheimer's drug test
14 July 2010 11:43Researchers claim they have found important clues about what went wrong in the 2002 testing of the Alzheimer's drug AN-1792, when some of the patients involved developed life-threatening brain inflammation.
Skin cells to study Parkinson's
14 July 2010 09:50Scientists will use skin samples from people with Parkinson's to grow dopamine neurons - the brain cells that die in patients with the disease.
New hope for breast cancer patients
14 July 2010 09:50Scientists have identified the cancer cell-spreading role of a gene in patients with an aggressive form of breast cancer, a discovery that is expected to help develop new treatments to prevent the disease.
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