Parkinson’s Disease: What Does the Future Hold?
Emma Woodham discusses how transforming the skin cells of Parkinson’s patients into neuronal cells could provide a new avenue to understanding the disease and personalise its treatment.
Author: Emma Woodham
Breast Cancer Cells Create Their Own Escape Routes: New Insight into Cancer Metastasis
An exciting collaboration between scientists at Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory in New York and the University of Cambridge has revealed that breast cancer cells can mimic blood vessels. This ability allows the cancerous cells...
Using Circulating Tumour Cells to Personalise Cancer Treatment
Rapid technological advances within the past decade now allow the isolation and analysis of individual tumour cells circulating in the blood stream of cancer patients. We are beginning to realise the potential of these...
Henrietta Lacks: An Ordinary Woman with an Extraordinary Story
Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1st 1920, the ninth child in a poor black family of tobacco farmers in Virginia, USA. At the age of 30, Henrietta developed extremely aggressive cervical cancer. During...
Cancer Cells Use Stealth Tactics to Colonise the Brain
How can we stop cancer taking hold in multiple organs? Emma Woodham discusses why we now know more about how cancer takes hold in the brain.
Nobel Prize Awarded for Discovery of Cell ‘Molecular Post’
Winning the Nobel Prize, every scientists dream! Emma Woodham reports on this years lucky winners in the Medicine category.
Discovery of New Giant Virus Questions the Origins of Life on Earth
Emma Woodham explores the recent discovery of a new and mysterious family of giant viruses
Glasgow – Leading the Field in the Fight against Cancer
Will we ever cure cancer? Emma Woodham explains why Glasgow is at the forefront of understanding and treating cancer.
