Medicine & TechnologySugar intake has long been connected to the development of serious diseases like diabetes, cancer and even early death. This fact has prompted the government to rethink its approach to encouraging citizens from giving up their sugar intake.
A treatment that helps the immune system fight deadly blood cancers is showing early signs of promise against some solid tumors, giving hope that this approach might be extended to more common cancers in the future.
Using nanotechnology, UCF researchers have developed the first rapid detector for dopamine, a chemical that is believed to play a role in various diseases such as Parkinson's, depression and some cancers.