Samuels and his team hopes to raise £250,000 for Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital by taking on a 600km cycle around France in just six days. In a bid to raise £250,000 for Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital, Sambro’s ...
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Hong Kong based startup Vitargent has developed a food testing technology with fish embryos to detect toxic substances in food. Though the technology has been developed for food and beverages, it also has applications in areas such as ...
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We really need to talk about bladder cancer Of the top 10 cancers in the UK, bladder cancer is only one where survival rates have been shown to be getting worse. New figures published this month in the Journal of Clinical Urology confirm ...
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What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
Bisphenol A impairs the function of proteins that C. This finding has been reported by researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Wuppertal. The substance, short BPA, is contained in many plastic products and is ...
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Agalimmune, a biopharmaceutical company, has been created to develop innovative immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, with a focus on solid tumours. The new company has been founded by an investment group comprising Loxbridge ...
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Singapore has officially opened Single-Cell Omics Centre (SCOC) to speed up the understanding of how individual cells work, and how diagnosis and treatment might be improved through insight derived from single cells. The SCOC is a ...
Leading oncology company Incanthera has launched a partnership with global investment group Technomark Life Sciences. The two businesses will work together to prepare ICT2588 - Incanthera’s revolutionary treatment for solid tumours ...
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Acceleron Pharma has announced that the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) has sponsored its phase 2 study of dalantercept. Patients with persistent or recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer are taking part in the ...
Clinical research and service provider GeneDiagnostics has entered into an agreement to distribute WILEX's serum HER-2/neu ELISA test in China. The FDA-approved and CE-marked biomarker test measures serum HER-2/neu protein levels and ...
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ANSA reported that Italian Senate has approved a decree on Thursday to keep the troubled ILVA steel plant in Taranto operating and employees working while a clean up operation takes place. The decree was passed by the government cabinet ...
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ANSA reported that two Italian cabinet ministers said that the outgoing technical government aims to shepherd through parliament the so called "ILVA decree", in addition to reforms laid out in next year's budget, before it is dissolved for ...
Precision Spine, the parent company of Spinal USA, has announced FDA 510(k) clearance of the Slimplicity solo anterior cervical plate system. The Spinal USA's Slimplicity new anterior cervical plate system, which consists of one and two ...
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A study linking a type of genetically modified corn developed by Monsanto to health risks in rats lacked sufficient scientific quality in order to arrive at any conclusions with regard to the safety of such crops, said European Food Safety ...
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Environment Minister Corrado Clini said Tuesday that the government was ready to take on prosecutors in order to keep the troubled ILVA steel plant in the southern city of Taranto open. ILVA said Monday's court order for the seizure of ...
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