Lab research - A to Z
This page contains links to content about lab research, which describes scientists studying the 'nuts and bolts' of cancer cells.
Lab research underpins virtually all major developments in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Browse content about Lab research
- Chris Lehane
- Fifty years of medical research
- How cancer grows and spreads - Growing a blood supply
- June 2010 podcast transcript
- Making new cells - DNA damage and repair
- Making new cells - Separating and dividing
- Matthew Golding
- Professor David Phillips
- Research into cancer biology
- September 2010 podcast transcript
- Dr Holger Auner
- How cancer grows and spreads - Getting the wrong message
- How cancer grows and spreads - Spreading around the body
- Making new cells - Copying DNA
- Making new cells - Getting ready to divide
- Making new cells - The engine of the cell cycle
- Our impact on bowel cancer
- Professor Herbie Newell
- Ruth Travis
- Press Release: Beta-blockers may boost chemo effect in childhood cancer
22 May 2013 - Press Release: Genetic 'fine tuners' control body's own attack against cancer
5 May 2013 - Press Release: Study reveals the genetic variations that raise the risk of breast, prostate or ovarian cancer
27 March 2013 - Press Release: Bowel cancers reshuffle their genetic pack to cheat treatment
27 February 2013 - Press Release: Study shows starving cancer cells of key nutrient slows tumour growth
17 December 2012 - Press Release: Protein levels could predict if bowel cancer patients will benefit from Avastin
23 October 2012 - Press Release: 'Treatment alliance' needed to save more children's lives from cancer
6 October 2012 - News story: Researchers show Myc protein is cancer's 'volume control'
28 September 2012 - News story: Discovery could lead to targeted treatment for small-cell lung cancer
7 September 2012 - News story: Lung cancer discovery confirms drug target's potential
12 July 2012
- News story: US scientists devise strategy to block key cancer molecule
21 May 2013 - Press Release: Diabetes drug makes lung cancer vulnerable to radiotherapy
1 May 2013 - News story: Possible origin of common ovarian cancer identified
7 March 2013 - Press Release: Cancer researchers and astronomers team up to beat cancer
20 February 2013 - Press Release: Inherited gene fault influences breast cancer survival
11 December 2012 - News story: Scientists develop magnetically activated cancer-killing antibody
8 October 2012 - News story: Gut bacteria could help fuel bowel cancer development
4 October 2012 - Press Release: Gene helps predict which women with ovarian cancer will benefit most from chemotherapy
19 September 2012 - News story: Healthy cells around tumours 'help fuel chemotherapy resistance'
5 August 2012 - News story: Experimental drug activates key anti-cancer mechanism
10 July 2012





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