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Can you imagine telling someone a century ago that a hundred years hence a stack of electrified silicon would be studying for its medical exam?
IBM announced its question answering machine Watson will begin to study medicine.
The students and staff at the Cleveland Clinic will do for Watson what the rest of us do for Google—hone its answering accumen by using it.
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Animal studies have been conducted successfully using gold nanoparticles to target prostate cancer tumors. Next step-- human trials...
Current treatments for prostate cancer are not effective in patients who have aggressive prostate cancer tumors. Most of the time, prostate cancers are slow-growing; the disease remains localized and it is easily managed. However, aggressive forms of the disease spread to other parts of the body, and is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. men.
The MU scientists believe their treatment will be able to shrink aggressive tumors or eliminate them completely. Axiak-Bechtel says this treatment can be safe and effective in dogs as well as humans because dogs are the only other mammal to naturally contract the aggressive form of prostate cancer.
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