Sentences with phrase «types of brain tumours»

Research from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute suggests that 4 types of brain tumours, and cancers that have spread to the brain, all generate and use energy with the same, specialised processes.

Different types of brain tumours may use strikingly similar approaches to generate and use energy to survive in the brain, according to a new study * published in PLOS ONE.

Professor John Griffiths, co-lead researcher based at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «The revelation that different types of brain tumours appear to be using similar tricks to survive was startling.

IBM's Watson, the supercomputer that famously won the TV quiz Jeopardy! in 2011, is analysing gene sequences from the most aggressive types of brain tumours.

AN insidious type of brain tumour cuts a swathe through the brain by secreting a compound that makes healthy neurons self - destruct.

Dr Steve Pollard and his team are developing potential new treatments for the most common type of brain tumour in adults, known as glioblastoma multiforme.

And Dr Sara Erridge is running a clinical trial in Edinburgh to find the best way to treat a type of brain tumour called glioma.

2003 — Our work leads to a new treatment option for children with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumour.

Finally, we hope that the principles presented in this study will also be applicable to other types of tumours in which we suspect GFI1 to be involved, including brain tumours such as medulloblastomas, the most common and most dangerous type of brain tumour in children.

1987 — We discover a molecule that would later become the important drug temozolomide (Temodal), which is used worldwide today to treat people with the most common type of brain tumour, glioblastoma.

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UK About Blog Brain Tumour Support is the only charity in the South West & Midlands dedicated to supporting anyone affected by any type of brain tumour.

UK About Blog Brain Tumour Support is the only charity in the South West & Midlands dedicated to supporting anyone affected by any type of brain tumour.

Not exact matches

The team also found that there were also cases of other cancer types in families with these hereditary mutations such as leukemias and brain tumours.

So they then went on to study the genomes of a type of paediatric brain cancer characterised not only by a mutated polymerase — like in the tumours previously examined — but also by an inactivated repair system.

«It tells you about the ecosystem of the tumour», Simona says, «using fluorescent markers, we can label many specific cell types and structures within the brain in the vicinity of the tumour, and look not just at the tumour cells but how they interact with their surroundings.

The results suggest that brain tumours adapt their chemical reactions in very similar ways to survive in the brain, despite starting in very different types of cells and regions.

In August 2012, at the age of 37, Alix was diagnosed with a grade two mixed cell type oligoastrocytoma - a malignant brain tumour.

This type of paralysis may be due to infection, inflammation, degenerative disease, spinal issues, tumour (won't know if there is anything affecting the brain without CT or MRI), parasites, autoimmune disease (corticosteroids should have helped) among other causes.

Headway defines an acquired brain injury as a type of brain injury that has occurred since birth, and it can be caused in many ways — from strokes, brain tumours, haemorrhages or a lack of oxygen to the brain.