A German/ Hungarian research team has recently developed a new tool for use by oncologic surgeons that will allow them to actually analyze tissues as they perform surgery. The procedure is based around mass-spectrometry, and represents yet another advance in cancer surgery. In the past the analysis of excised tissue has been performed after a [...]

Ovarian cancer was once termed the “silent killer”. The disease, which can affect women of any age but is primarily found in older women, has no obvious early symptoms, and still often goes undiagnosed by medical professionals until it is in its’ later stages. Despite improvements in the knowledge of medical professionals in spotting the [...]

When anyone mentions salmonella most people envision the misery of food poisoning. Every year the media publishes more stories about people who were sickened by salmonella found in bad eggs or under cooked chicken. But through the work of a group of research scientists there may soon come a time when salmonella loses some of [...]