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Posts Tagged ‘Drug’
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 […]
Taking the Initiative
Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]
Reducing Breast Density
It is well established that women with dense breast tissue (seen at right) have an increased risk – of four- to six-fold […]
Pioneers in Immunotherapy
The intramural research programme within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland lives by its byline: “Our research […]
Inspiring New Ways
The Africa Health Exhibition took place at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, half way between Johannesburg and Pretoria over the past three […]
Dreaming of a Better Diagnosis
Twelve years ago researchers at IBM established the DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods) Challenges, an open science, crowdsourcing effort […]
Searching for the Silver Bullet
A new family of anti-cancer drugs based on the metal silver has been discovered by researchers working at the University […]
Spotlight on Imaging Costs
Why is health care spending in the United States so much greater than in other high-income countries? That’s the provocative […]