Many of us, as children, probably experimented with a magnifying glass in which the sun’s rays were focused on a […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cells’
Our Brains Need Exercise
Up until 25 years ago, it was believed that a mature brain was unable to grow new neurons, and that […]
Amazon: The Ultimate Disruptor
When Jeff Bezos (seen right, © Bloomberg) established an online bookstore 25 years ago, nobody could have imagined the way the company […]
War: A Harmful Metaphor?
It has become commonplace to hear expressions such as “fighting the war on cancer” or even “she’s a warrior intent […]
The Emergence of CRISPR
One of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs since the mapping of the human genome has been CRISPR, an acronym that […]
Diet Linked to Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
Approximately 70% of all breast cancers are oestrogen-receptor positive (ER+), which means they rely on the hormone oestrogen to grow. As a result, oestrogen-blocking […]
Google Meets Breast Cancer Challenge
Four years ago Google bought a British artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepMind for half a billion US dollars. The founders studied […]
Releasing the Brakes on the Immune System
Last week the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
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 […]