tumours
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Illuminating Brain Tumours With Scorpion Toxins Could Save Lives
Up until now, removing brain tumours has been a fairly imprecise — and thus highly dangerous — art. Cancerous tissue in the brain looks almost exactly like healthy tissue, and being just one millimetre off is enough to permanently affect a patient’s quality of life.
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Why The 4.6-Inch iPhone Won’t Happen
No — stop it. Close that tab. Stop reading that. The Apple rumour de jour — a 4.6-inch iPhone 5 — is the same reheated broth some filthy cook serves yearly. It wasn’t true last year, or the year before. Here’s why it’s still BS.
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Technology That Makes Tumours Touchy-Feely For Surgeons
What would a tumour feel like? Sadness? Despair? Hope? Surgeons will soon know, thanks to a device invented by Leeds University, England, which lets users judge the cancerous state of tumors, along with the best way to go about treatment.
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Are Cancers Actually A Newly Evolved Parasitic Species?
Cancer patients may feel like they have alien creatures growing inside their bodies, robbing them of health and vigour. According to one cell biologist, they’re exactly right. The formation of cancers is really the evolution of a new parasitic species.