Illustration of a woman getting a breast screening test

Back to BRCA: the discovery of a breast cancer risk gene

07 October 2024

In 1994, a landmark paper identified a gene – BRCA1 – that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers when faulty. Thirty years on, we look at the major impact it has had on how we understand and treat cancer – and why there is still much to learn.

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Adult frog, xenopus laevis

Egging on vital research

11 July 2024

Jenny Gallop uses frog egg extract to figure out key cellular processes - which has helped understand and potentially treat two rare genetic diseases in humans.

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