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2 November 2021
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Why virtual reality is the future
A short film from Columbia Cancer Research featuring members of our IMAXT team – co-investigators Simon Tavaré and Owen Harris, and postdoctoral researcher Ignacio Vazquez-Garcia.
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The OPTIMISTICC team identifies microbiological signatures which may make colorectal cancer screening available for all.
This story first featured in our annual progress magazine - Discover: a year of scientific…
20 October 2021
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New findings from our PRECISION team define clinical criteria that may distinguish between patients with harmless breast carcinoma from those with a higher risk of invasive cancer.
This story first featured in our…
20 October 2021
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In October 2021 we held our first Future Leaders Conference, a chance for the early career members of our community to come together virtually, discuss their work and focus on professional development.
The event was …
14 October 2021
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Members of the Cancer Grand Challenges Mutographs team challenge the current theory of ageing, revealing that healthy cells can tolerate many more mutations that previously assumed.
What causes us to age?
A popular…
30 September 2021
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Cancers in different parts of the body use unique strategies to avoid attack by the immune system, according to a new study from the Cancer Grand Challenges SPECIFICANCER team and collaborators. The findings also…
17 September 2021
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How do tumours avoid attack from the immune system?
For some head and neck cancers, the answer lies on the short, p, arm of chromosome 9 – findings from the Cancer Grand Challenges SPECIFICANCER team which could lead…
14 September 2021
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We (virtually) sat down with John Marioni, new collaborator on the Cancer Grand Challenges IMAXT programme to find out more about his work.
John is a senior group leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute,…
18 August 2021
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OPTIMISTICC’s Cindy Sears is a clinician scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an expert in infectious disease and colorectal cancer.
In July, Cindy and the team shared a new mouse model which…
11 August 2021
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On the surface, astronomy has little overlap with bioinformatics, mutational analysis and other areas of cancer biology. But, as described by IMAXT’s Nic Walton, an astronomer based at the University of Cambridge, there…
29 July 2021