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Treatment shown to improve the odds against bone marrow cancer
Hope has emerged for patients with a serious type of bone marrow cancer as new research into a novel Therapeutic drug has revealed improved outcomes and survival rates.
New tool to find and fight the deadliest lymphomas
UK scientists have found a new way to identify people with the most aggressive types of lymphoma, which are less likely to respond to standard drugs.
Why high risk women are reluctant to take breast cancer drug
Only about a fifth of women at higher risk of developing breast cancer think they need to take a drug proven to help prevent the disease, according to new research.
Nanoscale tweezers can perform single-molecule ‘biopsies’
Newly-developed "nano-tweezers" created by university researchers can for the first time extract single molecules from live cells without destroying them – solving a long-standing research problem.
Ten-foot tall microscopes helping combat world’s worst diseases
The century-long mission to understand how the proteins which underpin amyloid-based diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s has taken major steps forward in the last 12 months.