Cancer-killing vaccines could be made drastically more potent, according to scientists at Northwestern University, who say their new technology would arm vaccines with a “powerful weapon with which to kill cancer”. By changing its architecture, their vaccine was able to double the number of T-cells (a type of white blood cell) available to attack tumors. […]

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Figures released this week showed the U.S. unemployment rate reaching its lowest point in 54 years—the fewest jobless Americans as a percentage of population since 1969. Sustained job growth over the past year pushed down the unemployment rate to 3.4%, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not only that, the median earnings for all workers […]

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If you’ve ever tried gift-wrapping an odd-shaped present like a teddy bear, you can appreciate the challenge that surgeons face when grafting artificial skin onto an injured body part. Now, bioengineers have devised a way of growing skin in the shape of hands to make it easier for surgeons in the future to graft the […]

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