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asepticSU™ single use technology eliminates cleaning validation

27 April 2016 | By Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group

Cleaning validation has been eliminated, traceability simplified and filling accuracy enhanced...

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New imaging technique shows whether drugs work in cancer patients

11 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

The first cancer patient in Europe has been scanned with a imaging technique that could enable doctors to see whether a drug is working within a day of starting treatment...

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Lapatinib and trastuzumab shrinks HER2+ breast cancers within 11 days

11 March 2016 | By Victoria White

A trial has shown that lapatinib plus trastuzumab before surgery shrinks and may even destroy tumours in women with HER2+ breast cancer within 11 days. The EPHOS B trial studied 257 women with HER2 positive breast cancer in the short gap between initial diagnosis and surgery to remove their tumours.…

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Researchers make cancer immunotherapy ‘breakthrough’

4 March 2016 | By Victoria White

Researchers have found the tools necessary to give immunotherapy the precision guidance that patients with cancer so desperately need...

NEB® launches new NEBNext® Ultra™ II Kit for NGS Library Preparation with as little as 500 pg of input DNA

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NEB® launches new NEBNext® Ultra™ II Kit for NGS Library Preparation with as little as 500 pg of input DNA

4 November 2015 | By New England BioLabs, Inc.

New Ultra II technology addresses lower input amounts and challenging sample types for Illumina® next generation sequencing systems...

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Tumour DNA in blood can be used to track cancers

4 November 2015 | By Victoria White

Scientists have shown that tumour DNA shed into the bloodstream can be used to track cancers in real time as they evolve and respond to treatment...

New Lymphocyte Genome Sensitivity assay can potentially identify patients with any cancer

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New Lymphocyte Genome Sensitivity assay can potentially identify patients with any cancer

17 September 2015 | By Andor

Andor Komet software characterises ‘Comets’ to detect Cancer...

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Progesterone could help treat breast cancer

9 July 2015 | By Victoria White

Around half of all breast cancer patients could one day benefit from having the cheap and widely-available hormone progesterone added to their treatment...

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First patient receives new ‘resistance-busting’ panRAF inhibitor in skin cancer drug trial

5 May 2015 | By Victoria White

A patient has become the first to receive a new ‘resistance-busting’ panRAF inhibitor with the launch of a phase I clinical trial...

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Genetic screening could improve breast cancer prevention

9 April 2015 | By Victoria White

Genetic screening could improve doctors’ ability to work out which women are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, a major study has shown...

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MedImmune and Cancer Research UK establish joint CRUK-MEDI Alliance Laboratory to develop new biologic cancer medicines

25 September 2014 | By AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, and Cancer Research UK, with its commercial arm, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), have entered into an innovative collaboration to establish a joint laboratory in Cambridge, UK...

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Scientists find potential way to halt pancreatic cancer spread

20 May 2014 | By Cancer Research UK

CANCER RESEARCH UK scientists have shown how switching off a key protein in pancreatic cells slows the spread of the disease to other tissues, a key step which can mean patients have just weeks to live...

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