Personalised medicine using nanoparticles for breast cancer treatment
By Marlin Communications | Breast Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, Cancer Epigenetics, Disease Area, Lab, News & Events, Research, Research AreaAt the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, a Cancer Epigenetics team is investigating ways to leverage the great opportunities that nanotechnology offers in the treatment of one of the…

Superbugs to kill ‘more than cancer’ by 2050
By Marlin Communications | Lab, News & Events, Research, Synthetic Biology and Drug DiscoveryWhen any of us needs a little inspiration at the Perkins there's a small sample of mould we can visit that's mounted on the wall in a little plastic contain-…
Molecular machines stop cancer’s clock
By Marlin Communications | Cells, Disease Area, Lab, Molecular Medicine, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Synthetic Biology and Drug DiscoveryHead of the laboratory for Synthetic Biology and Drug Discovery, Professor Oliver Rackham, says cancer cells grow uncontrollably whereas normal cells limit their growth. “A normal cell grows for just the…
New method to fight hard to treat breast cancers
By Marlin Communications | Breast Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, Cancer Epigenetics, Disease Area, Lab, News & Events, Research, Research AreaThe research led by Perkins researcher Dr Anabel Sorolla involves the use of nanoparticles to deliver a series of anti-cancer agents directly to the tumour. The study focused on triple…
Perkins researchers turn on cancer killing genes
By Marlin Communications | Cancer and Cell Biology, Cancer Epigenetics, Disease Area, Lab, News & Events, Research, Research Area, TumoursDr Benjamin Garcia Bloj, along with his labmates from the Perkins Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory headed by Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort, used a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to ‘wake up’ key tumour suppressors to…
Perkins researchers find essential gene for healthy hearts
By Marlin Communications | Disease Area, Heart, Lab, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, Molecular Medicine, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Synthetic Biology and Drug DiscoveryProfessor Aleksandra Filipovska and her team from the Perkins Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology Laboratory in collaboration with Professor Oliver Rackham and Professor Nils Göran Larsson and his team from the Max Planck Institute for Biology…