Cancer patients are less protected from Covid 19 after just one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, a research study by Kings College London and the Francis Crick Institute suggests. A 12-week wait for the second dose could leave them vulnerable, while an early second dose appears to boost cancer patients’ protection to 95%. There are…
Photo: Freepik.com Researchers at John Hopkins University and other experts warn that while vaping helps cigarette smokers to give up the lung cancer habit, they believe that long term addicted use of vaping harms lungs and can cause cancer as well as respiratory failure. Vaping products are not thought to be cancer risk free as…
Illustration: Elena Resko for Labiotech.eu The emerging DNA damage response field is expected to revolutionize precisely targeted cancer treatment as major drug companies show interest in major deals. DNA damage response treatments, (DDR) inhibitor drugs are a recent addition to the therapeutic arsenal employed in cancer treatment. They exploit the imperfect DNA repair machinery found…
In UK over 3 million procedures using live animals are carried out each year. In USA the annual number is estimated at some 22 million. Biotechnology is at last providing future research alternatives to the use of captured wild and industry bred animals for medical research. Research technology is now proving ever better at predicting…