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CRUK has given a multidisciplinary team £290,000 to develop tests for early diagnosis of prostate cancer.

The fund will help a team of Imperial College London researchers develop a test that provides a result within hours.

A first-in-human trial evaluating an experimental treatment for Ebola virus disease has begun. The Phase 1 clinical trial is examining the safety and tolerability of a single monoclonal antibody called mAb114

Sustained production of Affimer drugs by muscle tissue in vivo could lead to major patient and commercial benefits.

Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This is to develop a synthetic yeast strain that can be transformed on demand, making it industrial applications such as the mass production of advanced medicines to treat illnesses such as malaria and tuberculosis (TB).

A method to activate targeted drugs, or smart drugs, only at the selected site of action, an approach that improves the drug’s therapeutic effect and minimizes side effects, has been developed in a study led by Georgia State University.

How to install new capabilities in cells without interfering with their metabolic processes? A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München have altered mammalian cells in such a way that they formed artificial compartments in which sequestered reactions could take place, allowing the detection of cells deep in the tissue and also their manipulation with magnetic fields.

A team of scientists has identified networks inside lung cancer cells that will help understand this cancer and fight it with drug treatments.

New team members will support Cannabics' data-discovery process with the goal of identifying new cannabinoid diagnostic tests and treatments for cancer.

A new stroke-healing gel created by UCLA researchers helped regrow neurons and blood vessels in mice whose brains had been damaged by strokes.

Do your parents stress you out? Perhaps more than you think. A new study has suggested that, through alterations to genetic material in sperm, men who experience early-life stress may pass on physical and mental effects to their offspring.