Diabetes double
The diabetes drug metformin may help control lung cancer. In a study of 157 people with lung cancer and diabetes, the cancer had spread in 20 per cent of those who had taken the drug compared with 42 per cent of those who had not. The findings were reported this week at a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Vancouver, Canada.
Humanoids in space
By the time you read this, Robonaut 2 should be hurtling through space.NASA’s space shuttle Discovery was scheduled to start its final journey – an 11-day mission to the International Space…
