Blood test may improve survival of childhood cancer in Africa
Image credit: Margrette Dorn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. A simple blood test could speed up diagnosis and improve outcomes for children with Africa’s most common childhood cancer. In a new study, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Muhimbili...
New platform to enhance leukaemia therapy
Image: Li Feng. Researchers have developed a new biomimetic platform that could enhance CAR T cell therapy against leukaemia. Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell therapy represents a milestone in leukaemia treatment. CAR T works by genetically engineering a...
Telehealth improves access to genetic services for survivors of childhood cancers
Two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with intravenous chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl’s...