Category: Research

A battery-powered cap that disrupts the growth of brain tumour cells could help glioblastoma patients to survive for longer, new findings suggest.

The Paediatric Brain Tumor Atlas Project has been launched by Cancer MoonShot 2020.

We caught up with Dr Paul Brennan from the University of Edinburgh to hear more about his research.

The new Seimens Magnetom Terra 7 Tesla MRI machine is being installed in Glasgow in March 2017.

Professor Richard Gilbertson, tells us about his move to The Cambridge Cancer Centre and his plans for the future or brain tumour research

Dr Colin Watts’ research, funded by us, uses fluorescent dye to reveal different parts of glioblastoma tumours during surgery.

Researchers want to gather tissue samples from people with high-grade brain tumours as part of the groundbreaking Genomics England programme.

New research prompts drive to increase specialist neurosurgery access

The latest report from the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) shows that we’re part of an annual investment worth more than £1 billion each year amounting to over 40% of all publically-funded medical research.

12-year-old Ollie Gardiner is set to become one of the first patients in the world to receive a treatment being trialled for childhood brain tumour patients after an astonishing fundraising campaign launched by his family.

US doctors are testing a new glioblastoma drug treatment with early results looking positive.

Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science.

Brain cancer has surpassed leukemia as the deadliest cancer for children and teens in the United States, according to new government data reports the CNN news channel.

The Francis Crick Institute has just opened next to St Pancras station and the British Library.

Dr Francis Ali-Osman has been appointed to advise the Government on a wide range of issues relating to the US national cancer programme.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) division of Google based in London, DeepMind, will attempt to differentiate between healthy and cancerous tissue by analysing 700 CT and MRI scans from former University College London patients.

Stroud-based manufacturing company Renishaw, have installed revolutionary technology at King’s College London that dramatically improves accuracy and patient outcomes.

Scientists from The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, have discovered how glioma tumour cells adapt to low-oxygen environments in the brain allowing them to continue to grow.

Genomics England are now recruiting for patients with brain tumours to take part in the 100,000 Genomes Project. Genomics promises incredible benefits in healthcare through scientific discovery.

Scientists, led by Dr Elizabeth Stoll, from Newcastle University’s Institute of Neuroscience, have discovered that gliomas rely on fatty acids to promote their growth.

Vice President Biden is chairing a cancer summit in Washington today designed to garner further support for the Obama administration’s year-long ‘Cancer Moonshot’ initiative to advance cancer research.

Published today in the journal eLife, the research targeted the ephrin-B2 protein and results demonstrate it halts the division of cancer cells and then stops them spreading.

Findings from a new report which was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, suggests that gliomas are more common among people who are university-educated.

Dr David Michod will be inviting three young people to work alongside him and his research team in his laboratory at the University College London Institute of Child Health, London.