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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...
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Epilepsy drug shows promise in protecting nerves from damage in MS
26 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers from UCL found the anti-convulsant drug phenytoin protected neural tissue in patients with optic neuritis - often the first symptom of MS...
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Study prompts rethink on the rise of diabetes in cities
16 November 2015 | By Victoria White
New research shows socio-cultural factors including time pressure, commuting time and where you live play significant roles in diabetes vulnerability...
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Donepezil may delay residential care for Alzheimer’s sufferers
27 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Withdrawing donepezil from people in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease doubles their risk of being placed in a nursing home within a year, according to a UCL study...
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Avacta Analytical partners with UCL as sponsor of their EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing
14 November 2011 | By kdm communications limited
Avacta Analytical is partnering with University College London as an industrial sponsor...
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There is more to qPCR than the PCR reaction
29 September 2008 | By
The polymerase chain reaction is arguably the most significant technical discovery yet to have been made in the field of molecular biology and genetics, if not all life science. It cannot be overstated how much of an impact this technique has had, resulting in molecular biology becoming an integral part…
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Enthalpic efficiency and the role of thermodynamic data in drug development: possibility or a pipeline dream!
23 November 2007 | By
The determination of accurate thermodynamic data for the interactions of biomolecules has been enhanced over the last decade by the use of isothermal titration calorimetric (ITC) instrumentation. These instruments are now standard kits in many biophysical/structural biochemistry laboratories of pharmaceutical companies. Despite this, there is little evidence for the input…
