Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified 10 cancer drugs currently in clinical trials that do not work how clinicians thought they would. In identifying what went w... Read more
Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using a novel device developed by EMBL scientists. The research, reported in Nature Communications on June 22,... Read more
Engineers control cellular proteins with biological computing DNA has an important job—it tells your cells which proteins to make. Now, a research team at the University of Delaware has deve... Read more
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a quick and easy way to simultaneously modify dozens of drugs or molecules to improve their disease-fighting properties. U... Read more
Scientific investigations sometimes result in serendipitous discoveries which shift the investigations from one focus to another. In the case of researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, studie... Read more
Researchers are now working to design stable micro-bubbles which, combined with ultrasound, can deliver cancer drugs straight to the target tumour. The project recently started up in Trondhe... Read more
Researchers at BYU have devised a system to speed up the process of making life-saving vaccines for new viruses. Their concept is to create the biological machinery for vaccine production en... Read more
“It’s less toxic than its comparator and also more effective” A drug that delivers a powerful poison to tumors without some of the side effects of traditional treatments c... Read more
A dramatic breakthrough in breast cancer research A dramatic breakthrough in breast cancer research will lead to a revolution in the way the disease will be diagnosed and treat... Read more
Could end the problem of cancer drugs becoming resistant A BREAKTHROUGH by Welsh scientists could end the problem of cancer drugs becoming resistant to the disease they are designed t... Read more