An AI test to help guide bowel cancer treatment
Cancer is a complex and challenging disease to treat, but one of the most powerful tools for stopping it lies within us: our immune system. This fact is particularly important in bowel […]
Understanding our complex gut brain
Researchers at the Crick are uncovering the complex connection between our gut and our brain. Our gut has a life of its own. We’re encouraged to listen to it and […]
Fighting fire with fire: could Salmonella treat bowel cancer?
Our researchers are finding out how to turn the full stomach-churning power of Salmonella away from our bowels and onto bowel cancer. Surprising as that might sound, it’s an advance at least 200 […]
£10m funding for new programme to help identify individual cancer risk
by Amy Warnock , Graeme Sneddon Early detection of cancer is key to saving lives, because cancer diagnosed at an early stage, when it isn’t too large and hasn’t spread, is more likely […]
100+ German researchers state the need for animal research
Researchers across Germany have explained why animal research cannot yet be avoided, in more than 100 quotes collected by the advocacy body Tierversuche verstehen (TVV). The statements – provided by scientists, […]
Protein level predicts immunotherapy response in bowel cancer
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, have shown that the amount of a protein called CD74 can indicate which people with […]