Breakthrough Cancer Research secure €115k in funding to tackle cancer inequalities


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Entrepreneur—Dhruva Space Secures USD 9 Mn Funding from IAN Alpha Fund, Technology Development Board, and Others. The Hyderabad-based platform aims to deploy the raised funds for upcoming spacecraft manufacturing facilities, strategic business acquisitions, and enhancing product offerings.

Newsweek—Scientific Breakthrough Could Tackle Depression and Heart Disease. Researchers have discovered a genetic link between depression and heart disease that could help to find new drugs to target both conditions.A team of scientists at Tampere University in Finland identified a "gene module" consisting of 256 functionally related, co-expressed genes that contribute to the development of both diseases. The full findings of the study were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.This gene module–a group of genes with similar expression patterns across...

www.thestar.co.uk—now I have dedicated my working life to Cancer Research UK”. A woman who lost her mum and grandad to cancer on the same day has left her old career behind and is now working full time organising events for Cancer Research UK. Abi Malcolm, from Sheffield, experienced two major events on June 23, 2016: she gave birth to her second child, but also received the devastating news that her grandad, Stanley Andrews, had been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. A short while later, Abi’s mum and Stanley’s daughter, Jennifer Andrews, started suffering from...