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We’ve told you before about IceCure’s amazing tumor-freezing technology that destroys breast tumors by freezing them into ice balls. Now the company has set its sights on another killer – lung cancer. The Israeli biomedical company that pioneered the application of cryoablation (a process which uses extreme cold to freeze and destroy diseased tissue) as a treatment for benign breast tumors (fibroadenomas), intends to expand its technology to the treatment of lung cancer, with a new clinical trial to begin in Japan.Related articles The Israeli Blind Mole Rat May Hold The Key To Curing CancerIsraeli Doc Teaches Dogs To Sniff...

In a remarkable feat of stem-cell biology, Australian and Canadian researchers have identified a type of mammary stem cell capable of reconstituting an entire mammary gland. Their report appears in the January 5 issue of Nature. Stem cells reside within many different tissues and share two essential characteristics. First, they can give rise to progeny capable of differentiating into mature, specialized cells appropriate for their particular tissue. Often a single stem cell can ultimately produce several different types of mature cells. Second, stem cells are self-renewing, meaning that when they proliferate, they also produce more stem cells. There is considerable...