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DNA

Role of inherited genetic variants in rare blood cancer uncovered

17 Jan 2024

Combining three different sources of genetic information has allowed researchers to further understand why only some people with a common mutation go...

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Red blood cells (illustration)

Order matters: sequence of genetic mutations determines how cancer behaves

11 Feb 2015

The order in which genetic mutations are acquired determines how an individual cancer behaves, according to research from the University of Cambridge...

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SEM image of normal red blood cells, computer-coloured red

Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukaemia drugs

09 Feb 2015

The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments for leukaemia and...

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Breast implant

Study offers clues to how breast implants may cause lymphoma

16 Sep 2014

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with colleagues specialising in plastic surgery or histopathology in Austria, Australia...

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Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, a hematological malignancy

Researchers discover new test for chronic blood cancers

10 Dec 2013

A new test for blood cancers will catch many more cases than the present test that identifies only 60 per cent.

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