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New Concerns Raised About the Safety of Legal Drugs

With legal drugs consumption on the rise on a worldwide scale, governments are beginning to question the safety of these substances. While some have decided to ban them altogether, others still allow the consumption of low-risk hallucinogens, while a few have ordered extensive research into the matter before reaching...

3 October 2008
07:52 GMT

Nano Particles Could Be Used to Heal Severe Head Injuries

Researchers at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering have discovered a new way to deliver localized treatments for patients suffering from serious head or spinal cord injuries. By using silica nano-particles, they were able to deliver polymer polyethylene glycol (PEG) to animal tissue affected by toxins release...

2 October 2008
10:15 GMT

New Class of Anti-HIV Drugs Discovered

A group of scientists has discovered a new class of anti-HIV drugs, which apparently are able to better deal with the effects the virus has in human bodies. The real breakthrough is that patients have not yet been exposed to this class of drugs, which means that their body hasn't yet developed an immunity to it....

2 October 2008
08:53 GMT

Retina Receptors Replica Created

Retina receptors (RR) are very small parts of the human eye that play a significant role in vision. When affected by diseases such as diabetes, complications may cause severe vision disorders and even blindness. However, Raju Rajala, Ph.D., the leader of the research team that conducted this most recent study, believ...

1 October 2008
06:27 GMT


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