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Could Genetically Engineered Brain Cells Be The Key To Beating Alzheimer's?

Alzheimer's has beaten every treatment thrown at it for a hundred years. That record won't be broken easily. But engineering the brain to clean itself up from the inside is a meaningfully different kind of attack, and one that, for the first time in a while, feels genuinely worth watching.

Scientists Just Rewrote One Of Biology's Most Fundamental Rules

Nobody had managed to create a living organism running on fewer than 20 amino acids. Until now.

When AI Agents Go Rogue, Who Gets The Blame?

As they grow more capable and more autonomous, the gap between what they can do and who is accountable for it is widening fast. Debating whether an AI deserves rights while that gap grows is, to put it plainly, missing the emergency.

What If AI Thought More Like A Brain, And Used A Fraction Of The Power?

The brain has already solved the energy efficiency problem that silicon is struggling with. Learning to build electronics that work more like it, flexible, varied, and adaptive, may be one of the most important engineering challenges of the coming decade.

Your Brain Doesn't Build Imagination, It Sculpts It

It's a strangely beautiful idea: that every image you've ever conjured in your mind was already there, waiting in the noise, and all your brain had to do was learn to listen for it.

The EV Charging Problem Might Finally Be Solved

One of the most stubborn objections to electric vehicles has always been the same: filling up a petrol tank takes two minutes; charging an EV takes forever. That argument is becoming increasingly hard to make.

Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?

Scientists are actively investigating a range of suspects, ultra-processed foods, "forever chemicals" (PFAS), antibiotic use, air pollution, gut bacteria, and even weedkillers have all been proposed.

Complete Tumour Regression In Novel Brain Cancer Treatment Model

Breakthrough treatment achieved striking tumour regression in a model for Glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive type of brain cancer.

The Cancer Treatment That Sounds Like Science Fiction , But Isn't

Immunotherapy: the approach of turbocharging the body's own immune system to hunt down and destroy cancer, is having a genuine moment. After more than a century of painstaking research, it is finally delivering results that oncologists describe with barely concealed emotion.

Scientists Develop New Way To Determine Which Patients Will Respond Best To Bowel Cancer Treatment

Scientists have developed an AI-powered method that could determine which patients with advanced bowel cancer are most likely to respond to a targeted drug used on the NHS – potentially sparing thousands of patients from treatments that won’t work for them.

£2.5 Million Investment Boosts Pioneering Cancer Research

York researchers have received £2.5m to help transform future care for people diagnosed with blood cancers. The Funding will help researchers expand their understanding of how people are diagnosed and treated.

New Life-giving Brain Cancer Clinical Trials To Be Offered To People In Sheffield

New ground-breaking clinical trials designed to improve survival and quality of life will be available in Sheffield for people with glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer.