On Monday 1st October, Arab News published a front-page story on breast cancer, stating that women in the Middle East remain reluctant […]
NCI Launches Plans for 2020
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
X-ray Interferometry – An Emerging Technology
For the past decade, Marco Stampanoni and his TOMCAT team at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) […]
The End of Paywalled Journals?
Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations based in Brussels, and earlier this week it published a controversial initiative called […]
Pseudoscience and Debunking Myths
David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit. He specializes in […]
Welch Found Guilty of Plagiarism
Two years ago we featured a paper by Gilbert Welch (seen right, © The Dartmouth Institute) published by the New England Journal […]
Predicting the Return of Breast Cancer
Clinicians do not currently have a reliable way to predict which patients treated for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer run […]
To Scatter or Not to Scatter?
When X-rays pass through tissue, such as a woman’s breast, the primary rays travel straight through, whereas some of the […]
The Science of Sure
According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, “a patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product […]