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The news a cancer patient most fears is that the disease has spread and become much more difficult to treat. A new method to isolate and grow the most dangerous cancer cells could enable new research into how cancer spreads and, ultimately, how to fight it.

Univ. of Illinois researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology in China, published their results in the journal Nature Materials.

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There are lots of ways to treat a heart attack — CPR, aspirin, clot-busters and more. Now Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine researchers have found a new candidate: intense light.

“The study suggests that strong light, or even just daylight, might ease the risk of having a heart attack or suffering damage from one,” says Tobias Eckle, an associate professor of anesthesiology, cardiology, and cell and developmental biology at the Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine. “For patients, this could mean that daylight exposure inside of the hospital could reduce the damage that is caused by a heart attack.”

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