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Mesothelioma is a form of cancer because of asbestos’ exposure. Thus, the use of asbestos has been banned in many countries since the mid of 1980. In the field, many people still use asbestos although has been forbidden. Price is the main factor why people still use proven dangerous asbestos. Like said before, the frequent exposure of asbestos has caused mesothelioma to many people. This bad break of law that risk human’s health absolutely cannot be tolerated. In this case, the role of Mesothelioma Attorney is very important.

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Nanotechnology and Brain Surgery

Victims of stroke and traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries sometimes recover through rehabilitation, yet they often have permanent disabilities, in part, because slow nerve growth in the brain.

Fortunately, a treatment has restored lost vision in lab animals appears to overcome these obstacles, allowing a mass of nerve cells to regrow after being cut. "We think this is the basis of reconstructive brain surgery -- which is something nobody has ever heard of before," says Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, the researcher on this project and a brain and cognitive sciences researcher at MIT.

The treatment may be available to humans in trials in as little as three years if all goes well in large-animal studies, the researchers say.

In their experiments, the researchers first cut into a brain structure that conveys signals for vision, causing the small lab animals to be blinded in one eye. They then injected a clear fluid containing chains of amino acids into the damaged area. Once in the environment of the brain, these chains, called peptides, bind to one another, assembling into nano-scale fibers that bridge the gap left by the damage. The mesh of fibers prevents scar tissue from forming and may also encourage cell growth (the researchers are still investigating the mechanisms involved).

As a result, nerve cells restored severed connections, allowing 75 percent of the animals to see well enough to detect and turn toward food. The treatment restored around 30,000 nerve connections, compared with 25-30 connections made possible in other experimental treatments, Ellis-Behnke says.

Because the treatment overcomes key obstacles to the healing of nerve tissue in stroke and traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, the researchers, as well as other experts in the field, believe it could prove to be an effective treatment for these types of nervous system damage.

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Dichloroacetate as an anti cancer?

According to a post on ForumSains.com, scientists might have found an anti cancer agent. Though it's not yet tested on human this sounds really promising.

Bonnet from University of Alberta, Canada tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA. Cancer cells don't use the little power stations found in most human cells - the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.

If you really are interested you could see the discussion about DCA and cancer or go the DCA research homepage.