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New Spheromatrix platform speeds up cancer drug research
Posted in Medicine, Science on 20th Dec, 2025
by Alexander Muller
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.
New study explores how antifragility could revolutionize cancer treatment
Posted in Medicine on 27th Aug, 2024
by Alex Muller
One concept gaining traction is antifragility, a property where systems not only withstand stress but improve because of it. In cancer research, this concept is particularly relevant for tumors that adapt and evolve in response to treatment. Understanding antifragility could lead to more effective therapies.
Better together: improving brain tumour treatment
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
“It’s a very, very specific environment,” stresses Chalmers. There’s the blood-brain barrier, for a start, and then there’s the difficulty of killing cancer cells without damaging the healthy ones around them – the ones we think, act, share and learn with; that make any of this possible.
New cancer gene-drug combinations ripe for precision medicine
Posted in Science on 23rd Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller
Such combinations are expected to kill cancer cells, which have mutations, but not healthy cells, which do not.
Tumor-killing virus nearly doubles survival time of brain cancer patients
Posted in Science on 5th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
Instead of directly killing a cancer cell, the virus lays the groundwork for targeted drug strikes.