Your Sneak Preview of the Future
Cell therapy producer Lonza cultivates anti-cancer drugs on the Chemelot campus from the cells of patients' bodies. In five years time, automated factories in hospitals should be able to do this too.
Sertraline slows down the production of certain amino acids. This makes it possible to fight cancer without harming healthy cells.
Scientists at ETH Zurich are researching how cancer drugs can be externally controlled with the aid of magnetic bacteria and thus be guided precisely through the bloodstream to target a tumor.
A new test can detect cancer at an early stage in bodily fluids. The test will be cheaper and more efficient than biopsies currently used in cancer diagnoses.
Dutch hospitals have a world premiere with the use of the revolutionary new localization technique 'Pintuition' from Sirius Medical.
In this weekly section we follow up on one of our best-read stories. This week these were about innovations in the fight against cancer.
Swiss scientists at UNIGE and HUG have developed a new therapy technique for cancer that is more effective than chemotherapy and has no side effects.
This 'cancer-on-a-chip' offers insight into which factors influence the spread of cancer cells. The metastasis process can be examined and tracked with this microchip.
Nijmegen start-up develops new test that not only measures the presence, but also the carcinogenic activity of the HPV virus
In the fight against some forms of blood and lymphatic cancer, doctors have been achieving considerable successes with a new form of immunotherapy for some […]
Research carried out by the German Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) resembles films like Innerspace and the sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage (after a book […]
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Anyone who has survived a heart attack will never be completely healthy again seeing that heart cells cannot be regenerated naturally. Scar tissue develops after […]
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week […]
Door Vonk, co-founder and CCO of ‘Tired of Cancer‘ ran her own consultancy firm for many years. There, she raised funds for all kinds of […]
There is, in principle, only one method for early detection of cancer: regular check-ups. These are often unpleasant, e.g. mammograms or colonoscopies. Plus they are […]
Three-dimensional imitation tumors can help to test anti-cancer drugs more accurately. The 3D models can mimic a micro-environment which encounters cancer cells present in the […]
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week […]
The Twente start-up ECsens won the 4TU Impact Challenge at the beginning of this month. Students from the four technical universities in The Netherlands presented […]
Every year, around two million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer, which at 30.5 percent is still the most common cancer among women. According […]