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Agenus brain experimental brain tumour vaccine doubles survival rate in study

Agenus Inc said its experimental cancer vaccine helped brain tumor patients live nearly twice as long compared with those who…

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Google will shut down orkut social network on September 30

The Orkut team on Monday said that the social network would shut down on September 30 this year. It also…

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Alzheimer’s disease linked to brain hyperactivity

Elevated activity in the hippocampus — the area of the brain that controls learning and memory — is linked with…

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Scientists test ‘harpoon’ to clear risky space debris

LONDON: A primitive weapon will now protect earth against hurtling giant asteroids capable of causing mass destruction. Faced with the…

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Now, light-sensitive protein can control brain from outside

In a boost to optogenetics, a technology allowing scientists to control brain activity by shining light on neurons, the first…

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Fifa World Cup 2014 breaks Super Bowl record on Twitter

Nervous Brazilian soccer fans took to Twitter to breathe a collective sigh of relief as the final, tension-filled moments of…

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‘Google Glass’ helps sports fans home in on the action

Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced…

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Facebook under fire for ‘psychological experiment on users’

Results of the study spread — and with that anger and disbelief. "Emotional states can be transferred to others via…

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New ‘supercooling’ technology increases preservation time for organs

Scientists have developed a new supercooling technique to increase the amount of time human organs could remain viable outside the…

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