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Cancer

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Cancer breath test underway »

Progress is being made towards designing a cancer “breath test”, as researchers at the Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology) are working on an electric nose device to detect lung or head-and-neck cancer before symptoms appear. Head...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Sophie Marion de ProcĂ© | Read more »

Rutherford cancer scare labs closed »

Manchester University

The University of Manchester has closed the laboratories at the centre of a cancer scare in response to fears of dangerous mercury levels. The offices, which were previously home to the scientist Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of modern nuclear physics,...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Laura Robertson | Read more »

Sixth cancer death renews Manchester radiation fears »

Manchester University

A seventy-year old professor is said to have become the sixth victim of Rutherford's radiation at the University of Manchester, which is thought may already have claimed five lives. Room 2.62 and the rooms adjacent to it at the university—used a...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Alice Stanes | Read more »

New cell discovery could advance understanding of cancer »

Bacterial culture

The discovery of a cancerous stem cell by scientists from the University of Edinburgh could change the way inwhich certain cancers are treated. Researchers from the New Cancer Centre at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the univers...

Tue 20 Nov 2007 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »

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