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Lung-on-a-chip models enable advanced study of immune response

24 March 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have reviewed lung-on-a-chip technologies, finding they are useful for representing the various disease pathologies.

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Thapsigargin could be used as antiviral to treat COVID-19, study shows

3 February 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have discovered that thapsigargin has novel antiviral properties and is effective against COVID-19 in pre-clinical studies.

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£4 million in funding announced to collect data on COVID-19 antibodies

19 November 2020 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review)

UKRI will provide £4 million in funding to establish a data infrastructure for scientists in the UK to study antibodies from COVID-19 patient samples.

Ovarian cancer cells forming a cancer spheroid as they grow within the peptide-protein co-assembling material [Credit: Alvaro Mata].

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Novel tumour spheroids could improve ovarian cancer treatments

5 October 2020 | By Hannah Balfour (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have developed a new self-assembling three-dimensional (3D) ovarian cancer tumour model to recreate the in vitro disease more accurately.

Close-up of a tubular structure made by simultaneous printing and self-assembling between graphene oxide and a protein.

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Self-assembling biomaterial could be used to model vascular structures

5 March 2020 | By Hannah Balfour (Drug Target Review)

Scientists have shown an innovative new biomaterial made of graphene oxide and proteins could be used to 3D print model vascular structures.

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New web calculator to more accurately predict bowel cancer survival

29 June 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (Drug Target Review)

For many bowel cancer patients, following the initial shock of their diagnosis, thoughts quickly turn to estimating how much time they have to live...

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Chance meeting leads to creation of antibiotic spider silk

4 January 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (Drug Target Review)

An team of scientists at the University of Nottingham has developed a technique to produce chemically functional spider silk that can be tailored to applications used in drug delivery, regenerative medicine and wound healing.

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Irritable bowel syndrome significant financial and human burden

18 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer

An expert group calls for greater attention to be paid to Irritable Bowel Syndrome revealing the far-reaching personal and economic impact of the disease...

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JQ1 found to alter how breast cancer cells respond to hypoxia

13 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

Results from a study showed that JQ1 slowed tumour growth and limited the number of blood vessels that were produced...

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Scientists discover switched off gene in prostate cancer cells

26 October 2015 | By Victoria White

The discovery could shed light on how prostate cancer spreads and provides a possible new target for the disease...

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Researchers discover adhesive strategy of H. pylori

17 August 2015 | By Victoria White

Researchers from have identified the molecular mechanism that an adhesion protein of H. pylori uses to attach to stomach ulcers...

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Mass-produced stem cells on the horizon

22 July 2015 | By Victoria White

Experts at the University of Nottingham have discovered the first fully synthetic substrate with potential to grow billions of stem cells...

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