Expensive cancer drugs pushed off England's NHS list
Everolimus: from April, it will no longer be available in England to treat breast cancer (Image: P. Marazzi/SPL) Changes to England’s Cancer Drugs Fund mean that from April, new cancer patients will no longer be able to receive a number of expensive treatments – including three breast cancer medicines – that have hitherto been available on the National Health Service. Established in 2011, the CDF
The smart mouse with the half-human brain
Astrocyte nerve cells make a wealth of connections (Image: Riccardi Cassiani Ingoni/SPL) What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the animals are smarter than their siblings. The idea is not to mimic fiction, but to advance our understanding of human brain diseases by studying them in whole mouse brains rather than in dishes. The altered
Biological pacemaker keeps a beat without the hardware
Soon it might be possible to ditch the hardware (Image: Kallista Images/Getty) Is it time to ditch the hardware? Adult heart cells can be trained to act like electronic pacemakers with a little genetic encouragement, says a team that has achieved the feat in pigs. In healthy hearts, a few thousand naturally occurring pacemaker cells are responsible for controlling the electrical signal that initia
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