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More on microRNAs and why cancer spreads

Avril — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:38:03 +0000

This is another geeky post. If you are currently having treatment for cancer the research described in this post will not alter your treatment as this work is being carried out in cells in a laboratory (and not in people) but it is very interesting and will hopefully be used to design new treatments [...]

Two years away from a breast cancer cure?

Avril — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:35:30 +0000

No. Sorry. A lot of papers have been reporting work by Dr Justin Stebbing at Imperial College, London. He works on microRNAs and thinks that cures based on this research are possible in the next couple of years. I don’t agree. MicroRNAs are fascinating but there are very, very few drugs aimed at them. [...]