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A lung cancer treatment that inhibits nicotine receptors was shown to double survival time in mice, according to new research.

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admin on June 10th, 2009

A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists.

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A chemotherapy drug that is supposed to help save cancer patients’ lives, instead resulted in life-threatening and sometimes fatal allergic reactions. A new study identified 287 hypersensitivity reactions and 109 deaths in patients who received Cremophor-based paclitaxel, a solvent-administered chemotherapy. Two patients who died from an allergic reaction had highly curable early-stage breast cancer. The [...]

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