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£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.

How Do Cancer Cells ‘Learn’ To Resist Treatment?

Researchers at NYU Langone Health propose a model that could explain how cancer cells adapt to environmental stress, an approach that may lead to new therapies.

Understanding Cancer’s Hidden Vulnerabilities 

Taken together, the findings highlight how cancer cells exploit crosstalk between chromatin regulation and RNA processing to gain growth advantages, and how those same connections may expose new vulnerabilities.

New Drug Shields Heart, Boosts Cancer Treatment

Researchers has developed a cardio-oncology drug that protects the heart from chemotherapy damage while enhancing the effectiveness of cancer treatments against tumour growth and spread.

Manchester To Offer New Clinical Trials For Deadly Brain Cancer With No Breakthrough In 20 Years

Groundbreaking new clinical trials will be offered to patients living with an aggressive type of brain cancer in Manchester.

Reviving The Frozen Brain: How Scientists Are Getting Closer To Real Cryosleep

Cryosleep for humans is still distant, but the direction is becoming clearer. Instead of being purely speculative, it is now a technical problem being solved step by step.

Defining AGI: DeepMind’s 10 Traits That Could Measure Intelligence

Artificial general intelligence has long been discussed as the point where machines reach human level intelligence, yet the concept has remained vague and difficult to measure.

AI Layoffs Explained: What’s Really Driving Job Cuts In Big Tech

AI is influencing layoffs, but it is not the whole story. The real driver is a combination of business cycles, cost control, and a race to invest in the next generation of technology.

Beyond Antibiotics: Engineered Killer Cells That Can Eliminate Superbugs In A Day

Instead of relying on static drugs, future treatments may involve programmable systems that actively seek out and eliminate disease. If successful, engineered killer cells could become a powerful tool in combating some of the most dangerous infections facing modern healthcare.

NASA’s $20 Billion Moon Base: Building The Next Frontier Beyond Earth

At the core is a $20 billion lunar base designed to support sustained human activity. Rather than relying on orbital stations, the focus is now on establishing operations directly on the Moon’s surface.

Why What You See Is Only A Tiny Fraction Of Reality

This perspective reshapes how we understand perception, decision making, and even identity. What we think of as “what we see” is not reality itself, but a filtered output. Conscious awareness is not the full picture, it is just the part that gets broadcast.