Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) invites applications from young scientists for the Wachtel Cancer Research […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cells’
Update: The Microbiome and Breast Cancer
It was almost seven years ago that we published a blog about the role of the gut microbiome in breast cancer (© […]
Ants Can Smell Breast Cancer
During the Covid lockdown in France, doctoral student Baptiste Piqueret, who was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, conducted a series […]
An Extraordinary Biographer
Eleven years ago, I wrote a blog, “In pursuit of the perfect design,” which was in fact a book review. The […]
Leap Forward with CRISPR
Two years ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for “the development of a method […]
Watching Breast Cancer Cells Form
Imagine if it was possible for a surgeon, when operating on a patient with breast cancer, to insert a microscope […]
Bioengineering Can Do It!
Ralph Weissleder (seen right, © Wikipedia), who is a professor of systems biology at Harvard and a specialist in interventional radiology, […]
Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate
On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]
Free Access to Research Articles
Fifteen years ago, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town hosted Dr Harold Varmus, then the CEO […]
Ultrasound and Supercomputing
The European Innovation Council, under the umbrella of its Pathfinder Programme, has recently awarded a grant of €2.7 million to a […]