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Scientists have created human embryos from three parents, which could be the answer to a group of hereditary diseases called mitochondrial disease. Researchers from Newcastle University in Northern Ireland created test tube embryos in the lab using the DNA of a man and two women. Mitochondrial diseases — including liver, brain and heart disorders, blindness, → Continue reading »

A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells. Tests revealed that the 52-year old man’s tumors, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not → Continue reading »

A group of obscure chemical compounds, called phthalates, was in the news recently. They are found in scores of consumer products, and are linked by some to a variety of health problems. A primer on this new chemical hazard: What are Phthalates? Phthalates are a family of chemical compounds that come in the form of oily, colourless → Continue reading »

French surgeons gave a peek into the future of surgical procedures — they removed a patient’s gall-bladder without incisions in the abdomen. The feat was accomplished with a single incision in the patient’s vagina. It used laparoscopic procedure to remove the gall-bladder. The recovery was smooth, with very little pain. → Continue reading »

A French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant is all smiles. Isabelle Dinoire, 38, who lost her facial parts when they were torn off by her dog, had her nose, cheeks, mouth, lips, and chin replaced with donor tissue in November 2005. → Continue reading »