Articles tagged with "Oncology"
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Breaking the blood-brain barrier
October 28, 2013
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs to be delivered to life-threatening cancers which have spread to the vital organ.The study – in...
Why blind mole rats don’t get cancer
December 19, 2012
Biologists have determined why blind mole rats are immune to cancer. The mechanism differs from that discovered three years ago in the naked mole rat, another long-living, cancer-resistant rat species....
‘Barcode’ blood test for prostate cancer
October 26, 2012
A blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode, and can detect aggressive prostate cancer has been designed. A group at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal...
Detecting disease beneath the skin
October 15, 2012
An international team of researchers has developed an advanced optics system to noninvasively detect disease by looking underneath the skin at blood vessel networks. One day, the high resolution 3D...
Stopping cancer in its tracks
September 24, 2012
Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemotherapy drug say American researchers. While studying the mechanisms of gene integrity, researchers...
Skin cancer found in fish
September 21, 2012
Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Barrier Reef – directly beneath the largest hole in the ozone layer. Researchers...
Target healthy tissue to treat cancer
August 20, 2012
Cancer treatments usually target the disease-causing tumour, but researchers in Belfast suggest targeting the non-cancerous cells around a tumour could be a more effective treatment. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast...
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