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Protein May Turn The Tide On Brain Hemorrhage Survival Rates

With a horrific mortality and recovery rate, intracerebral hemorrhage is a devastating disease with poor long-term outcomes for those who do manage to survive it.

Vision Restored In Animal Models Thanks To A Refined CRISPR System

While it only affects about 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, retinitis pigmentosa is the most commonly inherited disease of the retina, so research seeking a cure across a variety of modalities is ongoing.

Our Future On A Reforested Planet: How The World Will Look If We Plant A Trillion Trees

By using automation, the reforesting effort can be scaled up to levels that have never been seen before in history.

GPT-4 Is A Big Upgrade. Millions Of People Will Use It.

With the exception of its new image-analysing skills, most abilities highlighted by OpenAI are improvements of the older algorithms.

Nuclear Power Could Be The Best And Most Effective Energy Solution We Have

The tool we need already exists and has been understood for decades, and it's nuclear power.

Five-Year Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate Increases To 12%

American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2023, released today, reports that the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is now 12%, an increase of one percentage point from last year.

Cancer Research UK - '20 Years On: How We’ve Decreased Cancer Death Rates'

Drugs linked to research by the charity are used to treat more than 125,000 people in England every year – that’s 3 out of every 4 people who receive cancer drugs in the NHS.

Targeting Variant Of Common Protein May Dramatically Boost Effectiveness Of Breast Cancer Treatment

A rare variant of a protein present in nearly all human cells may hold the key to improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, according to University of Manchester research funded by Breast Cancer Now.

Drug Combination Elicits Efficacious Anti-tumor Immunity Against Immunotherapy-resistant Cancers

Some patients still either don't respond to immunotherapy, or if they do, the effects are temporary, which highlights how crucial it is that we better understand the mechanisms leading to cancers resisting this kind of treatment.

First UK Proton Beam Therapy Trial For Breast Cancer Launches

It will help to determine whether proton beam therapy can help to deliver adequate doses of radiotherapy to breast tissue, while minimising off-target radiation delivered to the heart.

New Partnership To Boost Research Into Vaccines For Cancer

New cancer trials to begin using personalised treatment to save lives.

Peterborough City Hospital Bags Share Of £123 Million NHS Investment To Use AI For Breast Cancer Research

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is among five NHS Trusts set to use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up breast cancer diagnosis.