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Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014
Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to preve…
Treating cancer with wasp venom
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Aug 2014
Wasp venom is proving to be a novel source of inspiration for a new therapy for breast cancer.!--mo…
Daily aspirin could keep cancer away
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014
Taking aspirin daily could significantly reduce the risk of developing major cancers of the digesti…
Self-assembling nanoparticle could aid cancer diagnosis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jul 2014
A new self-assembling nanoparticle which targets cancerous tumours could boost the effectiveness of…
Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…
Neutron analysis reveals cancer drug clustering
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2014
Cancer pharmaceuticals currently have to be administered intravenously because of a tendency for so…
New gene linked to oesophageal cancer treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2014
A newly discovered gene linked to oesophageal cancer could hold the key to treatments for the hard-…
Breast cancer mimics brain development process
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 May 2014
A key element in the development of the nervous system may also play a pivotal role in the spread o…
Rotating nanoparticles cause cancer cells to self-destruct
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Apr 2014
Magnetically controlled nanoparticles which force tumour cells to self-destruct could form part of …
Preserving fertility in young male cancer patients
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2014
Freezing testicular tissue from young boys who are not yet sexually mature before they undergo canc…
Merm1 cancer target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2014
A newly-discovered enzyme is supressed in cancer and lung inflammation and could help in the develo…
Prostate cancer drugs ‘not treating root cause’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2014
New drugs aimed at treating prostate cancer may not be targeting the root cause of the disease say …
Breaking the blood-brain barrier
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Oct 2013
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs…
Why blind mole rats don’t get cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2012
Biologists have determined why blind mole rats are immune to cancer. The mechanism differs from tha…
‘Barcode’ blood test for prostate cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2012
A blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode, and can detect aggressive prostate cancer h…
Detecting disease beneath the skin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2012
An international team of researchers has developed an advanced optics system to noninvasively detec…
Stopping cancer in its tracks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2012
Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemother…
Skin cancer found in fish
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2012
Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Bar…
Target healthy tissue to treat cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Aug 2012
Cancer treatments usually target the disease-causing tumour, but researchers in Belfast suggest tar…
