A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
A little wipe like embed that can wipe up growth cells as they travel through the body has been produced by US analysts. So far tried in mice, it is trusted the gadget could go about as an early cautioning framework in patients, alarming specialists to growth spread. The insert additionally appeared to stop rebel growth cells coming to different ranges where new tumors could develop. The discoveries show up in Nature Communications. Malignancy Research UK said nine in 10 tumor passings were brought about by the infection spreading to different ranges of the body. Around 5mm (0.2in) in distance across and made of a "biomaterial" officially endorsed for utilization in restorative gadgets, the insert has so far been tried in mice with bosom growth. Trials demonstrated that embedding the gadget in either the stomach fat or under the skin sucked up disease cells that had begun to course in the body.The insert copied a procedure where cells loosened up from a tumor were pulled in to different ranges in the body by safe cells, the specialists said.
They found that these insusceptible cells set up camp on the insert
a characteristic response to any outside body - drawing the tumor cells in. At first, the analysts "marked" tumor cells so they would light up and be effortlessly spotted. In any case, they then proceeded onward to an extraordinary imaging strategy that can recognize harmful and typical cells, and discovered they could distinguish disease cells that had been gotten in the insert. Unexpectedly, when they measured cancer cells that had spread in mice with and without the implant, they found that the device not only captured cancer cells, it reduced the numbers present at other sites.
Researchers have long been looking for ways to detect the spread - or metastasis - of cancer at an early stage, but cancer cells that circulate in the bloodstream are rare and hard to detect. Study leader Prof Lonnie Shea, from the Department of Bio-medical Engineering at the University of Michigan, said they were planning the first clinical trials in humans fairly soon. "We need to see if metastatic cells will show up in the implant in humans like they did in the mice, and also if it's a safe procedure and that we can use the same imaging to detect cancer cells," he said. He said they were continuing work in animals to see what happened to the overall outcome if cancer spread was detected at a very early stage - something which was not yet fully understood.
Lucy Holmes, Cancer Research UK's science information manager, said: "We urgently need new ways to stop cancer in its tracks.
"So far this implant approach has only been tested in mice, but it's encouraging to see these results, which could one day play a role in stopping cancer spread in patients."
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