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Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples

August 2, 2024
Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammoth annual bill for lost lab samples.

Machine learning offers means to raise accuracy of cancer analysis

June 11, 2024
AI collaborators in Britain and the UK have developed a computer system that they say can spot cancer signs in samples with outstanding levels of accuracy.

Global oncology trial investigator sites increased by half in five years, finds new Phesi analysis

May 28, 2024
Global cancer trial investigator sites have increased 50% in just five years but led to a rise in the number of poorly performing sites, new research has revealed.

Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio

May 5, 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together on ‘life-changing’ gene therapies.

Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced

April 6, 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the availability of generic medicines.

UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment

March 24, 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre Network and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) have announced a strategic...

Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic

March 24, 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style has won backing from Cancer Research UK and the Physical Sciences Research Council.

Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours

December 10, 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of immune cells to enable them to infiltrate tumours previously unresponsive to treatment.

AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas

November 6, 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater success rate than its competitor, suggests new research from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and...

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker

October 23, 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imaging technique for early onset disease identification.

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