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Scientists uncover potential trigger to kill cancer

Posted in Science on 31st May, 2016
by Alex Muller

Researchers have discovered a new way of triggering cell death, in a finding that could lead to drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.

New device could improve cancer detection

Posted in Hardware on 12th May, 2016
by Alex Muller

A new method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for improved diagnosis and treatment.

New acoustic-tweezer design allows for 3D bioprinting

Posted in Science on 29th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

The new 3D acoustic tweezers can pick up single cells, or cell assemblies, and deliver them to desired locations to create 2D and 3D cell patterns, or print the cells into shapes.

Wheelchair-bound multiple sclerosis patients able to walk again after stem-cell therapy

Posted in Science on 26th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

A pioneering new stem cell treatment is reversing and then halting the potentially crippling effects of multiple sclerosis.

Blocking key protein puts the brakes on leukaemia

Posted in Medicine on 25th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive form of blood cancer, where cell growth controls are neutralized, giving the cancer cells free rein to multiply uncontrollably.