in may now have an excuse - it is at least partly down to their genes, according to experts. Experts, who studied more than 10,000 people across Europe, found those with the gene ABCC9 need around 30 minutes more sleep per night than those without (...)
Skin cells have been transformed into immune cells ready to fight cancer in the laboratory. Scientists have opened up the possibility of one day using cancer patients' own skin to fight their tumours.
Oxford University researchers transformed skin (...)
A daily dose of aspirin should be given to people at high risk of bowel cancer, say scientists. Two pills a day for two years reduced the incidence of bowel cancer by 63% in a group of 861 at-risk patients, a study reported in The Lancet (...)
The risk mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use of the phones has soared. The latest study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than 350,000 people with mobile phones over an 18-year (...)
Two of the devoted studies of medicine – stem cell technology and precision gene therapy - have been united for the first time in humans, say scientists. It means patients with a genetic disease could, one day, be treated with their own cells.
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Blackberry has had an annus horribilis. They started when Apple came along and threw a perfectly engineered bomb into the bit of its business that deals with business.For at least a decade, besuited city types spent every spare minute twirling their (...)
A trial of a new cancer drug, which accurately targets tumours, has been so successful it has been stopped early.
Doctors at London's Royal Marsden Hospital gave prostate cancer patients a powerful alpha radiation drug and found that they lived (...)