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Women Treated For Breast Cancer May Age Faster Than Cancer-free Women

NIH study finds radiation shows strongest association, less for surgery and endocrine treatments.

Predicting Bone Metastases Type In Prostate Cancer Using MRI

The findings suggest that MRI-based nT2SI measurement may be a valuable tool in predicting the type of BMs in prostate cancer, specifically distinguishing between osteoblastic and non-osteoblastic metastases.

New Alzheimer's Drugs Offer Hope For Bleak Diagnosis But Remain Out Of Reach In UK

Estimates by Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society suggest 720,000 people in the UK would meet the treatment criteria used in the clinical trials of lecanemab and donanemab. But they need a diagnosis the NHS just can't deliver.

Lung Cancer Diagnoses Of UK Women To Outnumber Men’s For First Time

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK, accounting for one in five of the total. It has one of the worst cancer survival rates, which is largely attributed to diagnoses at a late stage, when treatment is less likely to be effective.

A New Target To Slow Down Ageing And Reduce Blood Cancer Risk

It seemed to confirm a long-held theory that DNA damage is a key driver of ageing. 

Peppercorn AI Interview – Guiding Customers Through The Purchase Process 

Lombard founded Peppercorn in 2020 and it has gone on to secure £1.8m in seed funding. He previously founded two other insurtech companies: Hedgehog and Drivology.

MicroVita Interveiew - Drug Development Based On Live Tissue Cultures

The start-up participated in the Future Worlds accelerator and is currently looking for a commercial partner.

Researchers Can Now 3D-model A Room Just From Your Eye Reflections

Researchers demonstrate how they're able to take multiple high-definition images of a person moving around a room, then zoom in to look at reflections in their corneas, flip them, remove color and detail the irises might be adding, treat them to remove the curved-mirror distortion, and use them to create 3D images.

A Drug Designed By AI Is Starting Its First Human Trials

Its drug candidate (for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis-a chronic condition where the lungs become scarred and it's hard to breathe) - took just a third of the usual time and a tenth of the usual cost to develop thanks to the company's technology.

Space Colonies: Artificial Photosynthesis May Be Key To Sustained Life Beyond Earth

The exploration of space and our future energy economy have a very similar long-term goal: sustainability. Artificial photosynthesis devices may well become a key part of realizing it.

The Dream Of Harvesting Solar Power From Space Is Gaining Momentum

There is growing momentum in the US, with NASA revealing last year that it had launched a study into space-based solar that is expected to be published in the coming months.

Scientists Reworked An Experimental Cancer Therapy To Treat Autoimmune Disease

For reasons scientists have not been able to figure out yet, the immune response mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells, struggling to distinguish between ally and enemy.