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New Spheromatrix Platform Speeds Up Cancer Drug Research

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a cheap, paper-based platform that allows tumour models to be grown, frozen and stored for future cancer drug testing – called Spheromatrix.

First Patient Recruited In Clinical Trial Using Cancer-targeting Virus

The first patient has been treated in a clinical trial that is testing a pioneering virus technology – which originated at Cardiff University – that infects cancer cells, producing an anti-tumour drug from inside the tumour cells.

GigaTIME AI Tool Advances Cancer Research And Could Unlock Access To Better Treatment

A new AI tool developed by Microsoft Research and covered today in a new Cell paper allows researchers to study the “neighborhood” around tumors at a new scale, which is key to predicting how cancers behave and which treatments work best.

Researchers Discover The Enzyme Responsible For Chromothripsis In Cancer

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled order, allowing cancer cells to rapidly evolve and become resistant to treatment.

MIT Researchers Find New Immunotherapeutic Targets For Glioblastoma

A study profiling antigens presented on immune and tumor cells in co-culture points to new strategies for attacking a treatment-resistant and deadly brain cancer.

World-first Base-edited Gene Therapy Helps Patients Fight Previously Incurable Blood Cancer

A groundbreaking new treatment using genome-edited immune cells, developed by scientists at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), has shown promising results in helping children and adults fight a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.

A 3D-Printed Cornea Just Restored A Blind Patient’s Sight; A New Era For Eye Care

If ongoing trials confirm safety and effectiveness, this breakthrough could mark the start of a new era, where corneal blindness is no longer limited by donor shortages, but addressed with scalable, engineered tissue on demand.

Solar Arrays Built In Space: The Future Of Power From Orbit

This in-space manufacturing (ISM) approach could dramatically lower costs, reduce launch size, and allow far larger solar arrays than would be practical to launch from Earth.

What Time Feels Like On Mars; And Why It’s Weird

If humans ever settle on Mars, or send long-term robotic missions, we’ll have to rethink timekeeping entirely: adjusting to longer days, longer years, shifting seasons, and subtle relativistic effects on clocks.

CRISPR Slashes ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Levels By 95 Percent In Early Results

CRISPR, once seen as a tool reserved for rare genetic diseases, is beginning to show it may have the power to tackle widespread health problems too.

Startup Zap Energy Just Set A Fusion Power Record With Its Latest Reactor

If this path holds, future fusion plants could look nothing like today’s sprawling experimental systems. They may instead be small, modular, and cost-effective, opening the door to clean, steady, carbon-free power.

Are Animals And AI Conscious? Scientists Devise New Theories For How To Test This

As scientists study both animals and artificial intelligences, they’re asking a provocative question: perhaps consciousness isn’t about what something behaves like, but about how its “inner machinery” works, whether it processes information in ways that could support subjective experience.