Epigenetics: advancing diagnostics and accelerating precision medicine
Dr Jason Mellad, chief executive officer at Cambridge Epigenetix, discusses the emerging field of epigenetics-led diagnostics and personalised approaches to medicine.
The exciting and rapidly...
Improving the efficiency of chemotherapy with a new molecule
Researchers from the CNRS and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, have demonstrated that methiothepin, a small molecule, can improve the efficiency of chemotherapy by...
Mapping immune signalling
Anders Linden on the mapping of immune signalling via the cytokine interleukin-26 to identify novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets in COPD.
In the research group...
AI could be set to improve prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment
Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) could help improve prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, according to researchers at Sweden’s Science for Life Laboratory.
Cancer tumours are all...
An effective new treatment for cerebral malaria in mice found
Scientists from the universities of Manchester and Glasgow in the UK have found a potentially new way of treating cerebral malaria in a study...
Professor Mel Greaves recognised for work in childhood cancer research
Professor Mel Greaves, of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, has been awarded the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA,...
A new type of small-cell lung cancer has been discovered
Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA have discovered a new kind of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), which is going to help...
£12m grants issued to help tackle antimicrobial resistance on global scale
Four UK-based universities have been awarded multimillion pound grants to conduct research into the biological, cultural, social and economic drivers behind the development of...
Samsung and Babylon Health tech offers live video doctor appointments
In partnership with Samsung, Babylon Health has launched ‘Ask an Expert, powered by Babylon’, a new system that allows users to check symptoms and...
Further research supporting theory that e-cigarettes help smokers quit
E-cigarettes are known to help people stop smoking, even when they don’t want to, according to new research from the University of East Anglia...
Initiative will analyse 500,000 blood samples to aid global medical research
Nightingale Health and UK Biobank announce a major initiative which aims to analyse half a million blood samples to facilitate global medical research.
Announced today,...
The psychiatric patient and the ED
Marc Sabbe discusses the evolution of emergency psychiatry, highlighting issues such as deinstitutionalisation and cost containment.
There is no doubt that the amount and intensity...
Combining two different malaria vaccines could reduce cases by 91%
Combining two experimental diverse malaria vaccines can significantly reduce the number of malaria infections in animal studies, a new study from Imperial College London,...
Pancreatic cancer signs could be spotted in Type 2 diabetes diagnosis
Recent onset of Type 2 diabetes could give indication of pancreatic cancer signs, according to new research in the Journal of the National Cancer...
Evidence “insufficient” that nicotine preloading helps smokers quit
A new trial published this week by the BMJ has found that there is insufficient evidence that using a patch for four weeks before...
Further targeted use of immunotherapy has been discovered
Innovations in immunotherapy are continuing, as researchers have discovered a new method for predicting the likelihood of the treatment’s success.
Immunotherapy, the method in which...
First of its kind AST-VAC2 vaccine gets tested to treat lung cancer
In a collaboration agreement between Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and Asterias, a first of its kind vaccine, AST-VAC2, has entered into a phase I...
Immune system remains damaged despite cured hepatitis C infection
The immune system remains changed for many years, even after a hepatitis C infection heals, according to a new study by Karolinska Institutet, Sweden,...
STOP-CP in children – Stem cell Treatment Of Perinatal Cerebral Palsy using cord blood
Arne Jensen, CEO of BrainRepair UG and head of the Campus Clinic Gynaecology Bochum, Germany, outlines the motivation behind STOP-CP!: Stem cell Treatment Of...
Minimally invasive tissue sampling part of new global surveillance alliance
A new technique known as minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS), developed by ISGlobal, will form part of a new global surveillance alliance which will...
