Category: Research
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Hope for Ollie following fundraising campaign
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.
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US doctors test new glioblastoma drug treatment
US doctors are testing a new glioblastoma drug treatment with early results looking positive.
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Microsoft’s cancer defeating plans with ‘smart’ molecular systems
Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science.
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New report shows that paediatric brain cancer now more deadly than childhood leukemia in the US
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.
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London sees the opening of Europe’s biggest biomedical laboratory
The Francis Crick Institute has just opened next to St Pancras station and the British Library.
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President Obama appoints world-renown brain tumour professor to US National Cancer Advisory Board
Dr Francis Ali-Osman has been appointed to advise the Government on a wide range of issues relating to the US national cancer programme.
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Google’s DeepMind AI division to analyse brain tumour scans
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.
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UK firm and King’s College London behind new robot-assisted brain surgery
Stroud-based manufacturing company Renishaw, have installed revolutionary technology at King’s College London that dramatically improves accuracy and patient outcomes.
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Scientists further their understanding of how glioma cells adapt and thrive
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.
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Genomics England are now recruiting brain tumour participants
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.
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Newcastle scientists hail new understanding of glioma cell growth
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.
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Washington Cancer Moonshot summit chaired by Vice President Biden
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.
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Researchers identify a protein that could help prevent glioblastoma spreading
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.
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New UCL study finds university graduates more prone to brain tumours
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.
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UCL Institute of Child Health looking for research lab volunteers
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.
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Genetically-modified polio virus used in trials treating glioblastoma
A team from Duke’s University, North Carolina, have pioneered using a genetically-engineered polio virus as a method for tackling brain tumours.
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Ex-Facebook President Sean Parker pledges $250million to research immunotherapy for cancer treatment
Sean Parker, the billionaire co-founder of Napster, is donating $250 million to create The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, with the ambitious goal of making the disease curable.
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New imaging technique for cancer drugs trialled in the UK
A new scanning technique, designed to show more rapidly whether cancer drugs have worked, is being trialed on a cancer patient at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge.
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New genetic test offers hope of more effective childhood cancer treatments
Children with brain tumours will be among those offered a new genetic test that paves the way for young patients to receive personalised cancer treatment.
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French neurosurgeons use Virtual Reality to map brain tumour during surgery
On 27 January, a brain tumour patient at Angers hospital wore a Virtual Reality (VR) headset during an awake craniotomy to allow neurosurgeons to ‘map’ his brain tumour as it was being removed.
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American researchers explore cell enzyme as a potential paediatric brain tumour treatment
Researchers from the University of North Carolina Health Care System have been exploring the role of a DNA repair enzyme in cells called Dicer. When they removed this enzyme from preclinical models of medulloblastoma, a brain cancer often found in children, they found increased levels of DNA damage that led to the cell’s death.
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Research developments in 2016: what the experts think
A major study has asked medical experts across the University of California, San Francisco, what they see as real developments in the coming year.
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UK-based scientists study trace metal elements to identify brain tumours
Scientists based at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility in Oxfordshire, have used a technique known as x-ray fluorescence to track microscopic trace metals and correctly identify malignant brain tumour cells.
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Cambridge University scientists develop new blood test for childhood cancers including brain tumours
The new blood test focuses on germ cell cancers that are rare but take root in cells that develop into sperm and eggs and may lead to malignant tumours in childhood.