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Isolating cells in blood samples provides vital tool for disease management Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have invented a new way to indentify and analyse single cancer cells blood samples in a simple, cost efficient process. Emerging technologies for such single-cell analysis are becoming important tools in different biological studies, including disease management,…

Adelaide scientists have devised a way to enhance the effectiveness of a patient’s leukaemia treatment by using a combination of drugs. Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a cancer of the blood and, while current treatments are effective in the majority of patients, approximately 20 per cent of patients stop responding to the therapy and relapse.…

Silk could provide a sophisticated new way of monitoring health, Peter Domachuk, a physicist from the University of Sydney, has found.

It may be possible to halt cancer in its tracks by blocking a gene critical to building tumour supply lines, according to new research carried out at the University of Queensland. Most tumours need a blood supply to grow. Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have found that when new blood vessels form –…