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Advanced bowel cancer patients who have stopped responding to one of the main drugs used to treat it could be helped by immunotherapy, researchers have found. Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, have been exploring how tumours become resistant to cetuximab. They looked at 35 people with advanced bowel cancer and found that cancer-killing immune cells were on average six times more active in tumours that had become resistant...

Scientists say that hearing has been salvaged in mice by 'snipping' a mutation out of their DNA. The technique also worked on human ear cells grown in the lab

The charity is continuing its campaign to warn the public about the dangers of obesity despite a backlash on social media.

Scientists say that impotence rates have more than doubled in the last 25 years as guys struggle to perform between the sheets.

Despite the vast differences in scale, the processes that light undergoes when travelling through the human body are very similar to those seen in space.

Experiments showed mice lacking a particular type of white blood cell remained as lean as their peers - even when fed a junk food style diet.

It marks a critical step towards a possible cure for humans. A clinical trial could start within a year.

The technique worked on a range of human forms of the disease and mice with bowel and blood cancer.

Perhaps one of the greatest crises currently faced by the UK is the epidemic of otherwise preventable diseases faced by younger people. While pundits commonly point to socioeconomic issues and class status as causes of these conditions, they're often felt across all boundaries. That includes national ones as well. Teenagers in England, Scotland and Wales are equally as likely to exhibit any of the following three conditions. Some reports say that similar situations are starting to occur in the Republic...