New brain labs open at Addenbrooke's Hospital

New laboratories pioneering research into neurological disorders have been opened at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.The modernised John Pickard Neurosurgical Laboratories will be extending their ground-breaking work into brain tumours. Today a family who’ve raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to support the service witnessed the naming of one lab after their daughter.

 

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Scientists find quicker way of testing cancer cures

Cambridge Scientists have discovered a new way to test hundreds of cancer drugs quickly, cutting the time it could take to find breast cancer treatments. The new technique uses human tumour cells, grown in mice, which give an accurate representation of how cancer spreads. Cancer Research UK hope it could replace the current method of growing cells in the lab.