Biologists build proteins that avoid crosstalk with existing moleculesNovember 4, 2019
Engineered signalling pathways could offer a new way to build synthetic biology circuits
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A curiosity driven genetic discovery that should impact cancer treatmentsSeptember 23, 2019
A team of geneticists with a desire to understand the inner workings of genes implicated in cellular identity has discovered new biological targets that...
Cancer biologists identify new drug comboJuly 29, 2019
Two drugs that block cell division synergise to kill tumour cells
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Using AI to predict breast cancer and personalise careMay 20, 2019
MIT/MGH's image-based deep learning model can predict breast cancer up to five years in advance...
UCD cancer researchers lead development of new urine test to detect prostate cancerMarch 26, 2019
Studies have so far shown the test to be 70 per cent more specific for prostate cancer compared to the blood test currently used by doctors, and if the...
Cancer and cellular innovative research receives trio of funding awards for DCUFebruary 12, 2019
Dublin City University has welcomed funding awards worth more than €340,000, announced by Science Foundation Ireland for innovations in cancer and cel...
Early-career UCD researchers awarded €1.2m in fundingJanuary 29, 2019
The successful UCD researchers are; Dr Chris Mark, UCD School of Earth Sciences, Dr Maria Prencipe, UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, a...
To guide cancer therapy, device quickly tests drugs on tumour tissueJanuary 15, 2019
Inexpensive 3-D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalise cancer treatment, writes Rob Matheson...
The future of fighting cancer: Zapping tumours in less than a secondDecember 11, 2018
New accelerator-based technology aims to reduce the side effects of cancer radiation therapy by shrinking its duration from minutes to under a second. B...
Measuring cancer cell ‘fitness’ reveals drug susceptibilityDecember 11, 2018
Together, cell growth rate and gene expression shed light on why some tumour cells survive treatment...
TCD scientists develop potential treatment for common soft-tissue childhood cancerNovember 27, 2018
At present the long-term survival rates for synovial sarcoma patients is well below 50%...
Automated system identifies dense tissue, a risk factor for breast cancer, in mammogramsOctober 30, 2018
Deep-learning model has been used successfully on patients, may lead to more consistent screening procedures...
Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discoveryOctober 30, 2018
Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data...
NovaUCD firm licenses ovarian cancer treatment drugOctober 16, 2018
Exclusive worldwide licence deal awarded to biopharmaceutical company Carrick Therapeutics as preparations for pivotal studies underway...
Study discovers first in world treatment strategy to address breast cancer relapseSeptember 4, 2018
Scientists at NUI Galway have found that targeting the IRE1 stress response pathway may improve the response to chemotherapy and reduce relapse for pati...
Results of key studies on clinical performance of prognostic test for early stage breast cancer announcedJune 20, 2018
OncoMark Ltd, an Irish diagnostics company, has announced the results of two key studies on the clinical performance of its OncoMasTR test...
Drugs targeting tumour metabolism will not stop our ‘Natural Killer’ cellsJune 18, 2018
Scientists have just made an important discovery as to how cancer-targeting ‘Natural Killer’ (NK) cells are fuelled in the body, which has significa...
Drug reduces size of some lung cancer tumours and relapse rate after surgeryApril 17, 2018
Drug given to early-stage lung cancer patients before undergoing surgery showed big tumour responses in removed tumour and increase in anti-tumour T-cel...
Newfound ‘organ’ had been missed by standard method for visualising anatomyApril 3, 2018
Researchers have identified a previously unknown feature of human anatomy with implications for the function of all organs, most tissues and the mechani...
New research at NUI Galway uses stem cells to target tumoursFebruary 20, 2018
Research study has identified a novel approach that could potentially be used to treat breast cancer when it has spread to other organs, using tiny vesi...