Researchers in the US have successfully conducted the first small-scale clinical trial to test a gene-editing treatment for cancer. They extracted t-cells, which are immune cells, from three cancer patients and edited their DNA with Crispr-Cas9, a powerful tool which works like molecular scissors to remove with great precision part of the cells’ genetic code…
1300 researchers have worked for ten years to explore the entire cancer genome. Their results suggest that some cancers could be predicted through DNA mutations that occur many years before the cancers make patients ill. The Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium involved researchers from 37 countries who examined 47 million genetic changes in over…
Deborah had signed up for the London Winter Run to raise money for Secondary1st in memory of her late mother, who had passed away ten years ago. Storm Ciara forced the organisers to cancel the event but Deborah refused to be beaten by the weather. Two days later she completed a 10 km run on…