Researchers at Lancaster University says that a  new drug which can prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease could be tested on patients within six years.

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Eindhoven University of Technology is starting new research with aims of developing nano-structured solar cells that can attain an efficiency of more than 65 percent. The researchers claim that nanotechnology, in combination with the use of concentrated sunlight through mirror systems, has the potential to lead to the world’s most efficient solar cell system with a cost price lower than 50 cent per Watt peak.

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A research done at the university of Texas developed a laser been that can heat a living cell up to the point where it completely evaporate. This procedure can be done in a very fast and accurate way so no other cells are harmed during this procedure.  This new technology will make it possible to have surgeries which are not possible today due to the danger of damaging healthy cells.

A new gene (Metadherin) discovered by researchers as related to the spread of breast cancer and to the drugs and treatments resistance of cancer cells can lead to a new drug against Metadherin which can reduce breast cancer appearances.

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For the first time in history, researchers were able to produce embryonic stem cells from rats. For many of us that do not sound exiting, but for medical research this is a real revolution because rats are more  ’related’ to mankind than mice – a fact that will allow scientists to create models much more effective than was possible until now in the research of human diseases.

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