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Pioneering drug that hits prostate cancer's weak spot

Pioneering drug that hits prostate cancer’s weak spot gives hope to men with the incurable disease Olaparib works by interfering with key process that allows tumour cells to repair  Drug already given to women with a specific type of breast and ovarian cancer  Roughly 50,000 men in the UK each year are diagnosed with prostate […]

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Computers can ‘spot the difference’ between healthy brains and the brains of people with DID

Machine-learning and neuroimaging techniques have been used to accurately distinguish between individuals with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and healthy individuals, on the basis of their brain structure, in new research part funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers performed MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) brain scans […]