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探花直播doctor using smartphones to save lives in war zones

04 Feb 2019

Having survived the civil war in Afghanistan, alumnus Waheed Arian arrived alone in the UK aged 15. He went on to study medicine at Trinity Hall...

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Breast cancer. Female hands make heart on pink ribbon

Six months of Herceptin could be as effective as 12 months for some women

17 May 2018

For women with HER2 positive early-stage breast cancer taking Herceptin for six months could be as effective as 12 months in preventing relapse and...

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Tasmanian devil

Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

09 Apr 2018

Transmissible cancers are incredibly rare in nature, yet have arisen in Tasmanian devils on at least two separate occasions. New research from the...

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Toothpaste

AI 'scientist' finds that toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria

18 Jan 2018

An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant...

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Stephen Hawking endorses new 拢50 million centre

27 Oct 2017

Gifts totalling more than 拢32 million, together with government funds of over 拢17 million, have enabled the launch of a highly innovative Centre in...

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Synthetic organs, nanobots and DNA 鈥榮cissors鈥: the future of medicine

12 Oct 2017

Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut out defective genes: these are...

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Silk 鈥渕icrococoons鈥 could be used in biotechnology and medicine

19 Jul 2017

Researchers have manufactured microscopic versions of the cocoons spun by silkworms, which could be used to store sensitive proteins and other...

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Drugs: how to pick a winner in clinical trials

26 Jun 2017

When a drug fails late on in clinical trials it鈥檚 a major setback for launching new medicines. It can cost millions, even billions, of research and...

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Keep taking the tablets

Take your medicine: how research into supply chains will help you take care of yourself

14 Jun 2017

Researchers are working with pharmaceutical companies to make improvements across the whole supply chain, from how a pill is made to the moment it is...

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Future therapeutics: the hundred-year horizon scan

13 Jun 2017

How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies 鈥榖eyond the pill鈥...

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Life and death

Questions of life and death

04 Nov 2016

An ambitious seminar series began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, 探花直播Time to Die addresses...

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Measurement of brain activity in a patient with phantom limb pain

Cause of phantom limb pain in amputees, and potential treatment, identified

27 Oct 2016

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a...

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