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A new potential therapeutic avenue for Parkinson's disease. This research is unusual given that it focuses on senescence in astrocytes, so called "helper" cells that perform a variety of tasks, from axon guidance and synaptic support to control of the blood brain barrier and blood flow.

Capital infrastructure investment to embed and secure clinical and commercial viral vector manufacturing capability within the UK. Award made as part of UK’s Innovation Agency’s Industrial Strategy boost for UK medicines with £70m of funding to help develop new treatments.

Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a semiconductor chip.

A new study, conducted by the University of Liverpool and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine highlights a new 'long acting' medicine for the prevention of malaria.

Researchers have been exploring the intricate shapes that emerge when air is injected into soil. These findings could one day be used to speed up the decontamination of industrial brownfield sites-which the United Kingdom currently has over 400,000 hectares of.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that ten scientists with novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named 2018 recipients of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award.

Pax7, a transcription factor, is able to open up compacted genome segments to allow cell growth to occur properly.

Unique epigenetic signatures for nine neurodevelopmental disorders have been identified, lending to a better method of diagnosis for disorders with much clinical overlap.

Researchers map the amygdala's distinct but diverse and dynamic neighbourhoods where feelings are assigned.

Many of the most common cancer-causing genes are so central to cellular function throughout the body that they are essentially 'undruggable'. Now, researchers have found a way to attack one of the most common drivers of lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancer by targeting the proteins it produces on the outside of the cell.