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Prostate Cancer Breakthrough Drug Doubles Survival Time 

Olaparib shown to be highly effective in treating specific type of prostate cancer.

Lung Cancer: Two Signs Which Can Show In Your Eyelid 'caused By The Tumour'

The NHS says that there are usually no signs or symptoms in the early stages, though symptoms of lung cancer develop as the condition progresses.

Ketogenic Diet Could Enhance The Efficacy Of Chemotherapy For Pancreatic Cancer, Study Shows

By depriving the body of sugar, the ketogenic diet forces the body to break down fats to generate molecules known as ketone bodies that can be burned by cells to generate energy.

Immunity-boosting Breast Cancer Drug Could Save Thousands, Finds UK Research

Keytruda treatment found to cut risk of aggressive cancer returning after surgery by more than a third.

Lunasa Space Startup Interview

Lunasa Space is a start-up developing a reusable orbital transfer vehicle to host and deploy NanoSats.

Aistech Space Interview

A space technology company that plans to launch one of the first commercial constellations capable of taking high-resolution thermal images on demand.

Shot Of Engineered Immune Cells Helps Heal Heart Damage

The idea "Is ground-breaking because it's a whole new way of thinking about a therapeutic application, redirecting the T cell to control other aberrant cells. Obviously that makes huge sense in cancer, but that's just the start of things".

How Will The Universe End? Scientists Seek An Answer In The Biggest Galaxy Map Yet

By mapping the large structure of the universe over time, scientists hope to chart how the rate of expansion-and perhaps the dark energy driving it, has changed and how it might in the future.

Ancient Ice Reveals Powerful Solar Storm During Sun's "quiet" Phase

This could shake up our understanding of when we need to be on alert for solar storms.

Walmart Is Investing Heavily Into Vertical Farming

The company says this system enables them to use just one percent of the land required by traditional farming while improving yields 150-350 times per acre.

Fitbits May Find Use In Predicting Depression

By tapping on our machine learning program, as well as the increasing popularity of wearable devices, it could one day be used for timely and unobtrusive depression screening.

How To Predict Who Is Most Likely To Develop Long COVID

If those most susceptible to the chronic condition can be identified early, then treatments can be tested to hopefully prevent it from developing.