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Could ketamine-assisted therapy help treat alcoholism?
The largest clinical trial of its kind will investigate if ketamine-assisted therapy can reduce harmful drinking in people with severe alcohol use disorder.
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First patient given base-edited CAR T cells
The first ever use of base-edited T-cells have helped to treat a patient with relapsed T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in a clinical trial.
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UK research consortium given £2 million to control monkeypox
£2 million will help fund a UK team of scientific experts to research monkeypox, uncover novel treatments and curb the spread of the virus.
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UK at the forefront of advanced therapies
Advanced therapies are a ground-breaking new class of medicines that use gene therapy, cell therapy or tissue engineering to treat disease and injury. Rachel Bell, Trainee Patent Attorney at Marks & Clerk, and Ceri Roberts, Scientific Training Manager – Cellular and Molecular Therapies at NHS Blood and Transplant, discuss some…
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Machine learning used to predict most effective cancer drugs
According to a new study, Drug Ranking Using Machine Learning (DRUML) can accurately rank cancer therapies by efficacy across a range of cancer types.
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MRC and LifeArc announce grants for Gene Therapy Innovation Hubs in UK
The UK MRC and LifeArc are making £16 million available as grants to fund the establishment of Gene Therapy Innovation Hubs to improve resources for researchers and manufacturers.
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Report finds £4.8m of funding contributed to UK health research in 2018
Researchers have found that the development and evaluation of new treatments received the most funding in the UK over the past 14 years.
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Sir Peter Ratcliffe awarded joint Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
The researcher Sir Peter Ratcliffe and two others have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2019.
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Stem cells to grow new immune system in Crohn’s disease patients
A phase III clinical trial looks to use a patients own stem cells to treat the debilitating disease...
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Painkillers in pregnancy may affect baby’s future fertility
Taking painkillers during pregnancy could affect the fertility of the unborn child in later life, research suggests...
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Iron supplements may influence the development of colon cancer
Two common iron compounds increase the formation of a known biomarker for cancer...
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MLE490 reduces the number and severity of hot flushes in menopause
A new class of experimental drugs reduces hot flushes in menopausal women by almost three-quarters in just three days...
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Old antibiotic compounds could become tomorrow’s life-saving drugs
Scientists and chemists are re-examining old compounds to see whether they could hold the key to a future drug to combat increasingly resistant bacteria...
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Carbon nanotubes may pose cancer risk similar to asbestos
A study has provided strong evidence that certain carbon nanotubes used in manufacturing could pose the same cancer risk as asbestos...
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UK Biobank releases genetic data on 0.5m people
Genetic data on half a million people was made available for research last week by the UK Biobank study. Information about participants’ health and well-being, key body measurements, their diet, occupational history, mental health and activity levels are also included...
