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Neurofibromatosis Leaves Mum's Body Covered In Lumps: BORN DIFFERENT
MUM-OF-FOUR Rachael Reynolds spends each morning getting her children ready for the day ahead, but her severe skin condition leaves her brimming with anxiety each time she leaves the house to do the school run. Rachael, 41, from...
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ChangeMakers Jenny Desmond – The Sanctuary for Chimpanzee Rescue
ChangeMakers Jenny Desmond – The Sanctuary for Chimpanzee Rescue
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Tissue Culture: Growing Identical Cells for Plant Breeding and Medical Research
This is a video that explains the concept of tissue culture, which is a technique used to grow cells or tissues in a liquid or solid medium that contains nutrients. The video describes the process of tissue culture, as well as the...
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Designing Simulations Using Random Number Generators
In this video, the teacher explains how to conduct a simulation to model the results of shots on goal in a soccer game. The simulation uses a random number generator and assigns certain numbers or outcomes to represent saving or missing...
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New research into chronic fatigue syndrome
A group of Canadian researchers is trying to come up with a standard diagnostic test and treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, which affects roughly 580,000 Canadians.
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How to improve the early diagnostics of ophthalmic diseases?
How to improve the early diagnostics of ophthalmic and also neurodegenerative diseases in safe, accurate ways? European researchers are keeping an eye to the latest optical technologies to provide some answers to that question.
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New imaging techniques to speed up eye diagnosing eye diseases
The Vienna General Hospital - Austria's biggest - routinely treats dozens of eye patients a day in its department of opthalmology. And one disease comes up again and again: aged-related macular degeneration. Last summer Barbel Langer, a...
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Exoskeletons help patients regain mobility
Four years ago, Pablo Albisua Albizu's life changed for ever. Just after heart surgery, this former decorator suffered a stroke that left one side of his body paralysed. Along with hundreds of rehabilitation sessions, he also volunteered...
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Finding new cures for Osteoarthritis
It's a problem which is affecting Europe's ageing population. Osteoarthritis is the most common chronic form of arthritis in the joints. For example, between the vertebrae of the spine, there are fluid disks which are essential for the...
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Using viruses to fight cancer
This week in Business Planet, we will be finding out about a new approach that uses viruses in cancer treatment. Biotech expert Jean-Jacques Le Fur joins us to shed light on this new technique. Biotechnology and life sciences are used in...
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Lyon: a stronghold for entrepreneurship in France
Serge Rombi: “Welcome to Business Planet from ‘Now Coworking’ in Lyon. It is the second biggest city in France for entrepreneurship. We are with Raddouane Ouama who is the coordinator of “Lyon City of Entrepreneurship” which is a very...
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Cat gets bionic legs in landmark operation
Poo, the cat lost his hind legs in an accident and his chances of survival were slim. The traditional solution would have had him drag a set of wheels behind him. But he was taken to a Bulgarian vet who implanted bionic titanium legs....
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3D printing for medical purposes highlighted at Dubai’s ‘Arab Health’
Over 4,000 healthcare companies from 70 countries gathered in Dubai for Arab Health which showcased the latest industry-leading technology. 3D printing was in the spotlight with a zone dedicated for hands-on training and practical...
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A transplant operation of cartilage from the nose could bring help to people who suffer knee problems
Swiss doctors have reported that cartilage cells harvested from patients’ own noses have been used to successfully produce cartilage transplants for the treatment of the knees of 10 adults with damaged cartilages. Two years after...
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The vital role of SMEs in medical research
This week’s Business Planet comes from the German city of Bonn. We look at a unique partnership between researchers, universities, pharmaceutical giants and SMEs which is key to providing new treatments for patients and business...
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Fighting dementia with gaming
A mobile game that challenges a gamer’s spatial navigation has generated the largest-ever dementia study. More than 2.4 million people have played ‘Sea Hero Quest’ since it was launched in May, generating the equivalent of more than...
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Brain implant allows paralysed monkey to walk
It’s being hailed as a major medical breakthrough: partially-paralysed monkeys have learned to walk again thanks to a brain implant that uses wireless signals to bypass broken nerves in the spinal cord and reanimate the useless limbs....
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Business Planet: Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
This week’s Business Planet comes from the German city of Bonn. We look at a unique partnership between researchers, universities, pharmaceutical giants and SMEs which is key to providing new treatments for patients and business...
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Piecing together the gender jigsaw of autism
Scientists in the US are seeking to enroll hundreds of families with autistic sons but unaffected daughters in a study looking for genetic clues and protective factors. Autism is at least four times more common in boys than it is in...
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3D printed cast could replace plaster
If you’ve ever had to wear a cast, you will be familiar with the discomfort of not being able to scratch that itch on your leg or arm. Miklós Molnár’s new 3D printed cast might be the answer. Made entirely of biodegradable plastic, it...
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Spider venom could save lives
A team of Irish researchers is conducting an unusual kind of experiment – they are examining the venom of some of the hundreds of species of spiders found in Ireland in the hope it may have medicinal properties. It comes after the team...
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Living by the light in a glasshouse
What would it be like to live in a glass house where you and your body are aware of every minute of daylight? In Bornholm, in an often dark and wintry Denmark, a team of Oxford University researchers is trying to find out in its...
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How astronaut health studies help us Earthlings
Astronauts have an out of this world job. They see sunrise and sunset 16 times a day, and over the weeks and months in orbit their bodies change inside and out. They lose muscle mass and bone mass, and many aspects of their health are...