leukaemia

Topic description and stories

Scientists develop test to identify people at risk of developing acute myeloid leukaemia and related cancers

24 Aug 2023

The new ‘MN-predict’ platform will allow doctors and scientists to identify those at risk and to design new treatments to prevent them from...

Human cells with acute myelocytic leukemia, shown with an esterase stain at 400x

Scientists develop new class of cancer drug with potential to treat leukaemia

26 Apr 2021

Scientists have made a promising step towards developing a new drug for treating acute myeloid leukaemia, a rare blood disorder. In a study published...

A Surprising New Path to Tumor Development

New microscopic imaging technology reveals origins of leukaemia

19 Oct 2015

Scientists at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular...

Order matters: sequence of genetic mutations determines how cancer behaves

11 Feb 2015

The order in which genetic mutations are acquired determines how an individual cancer behaves, according to research from the University of Cambridge...

SEM image of normal red blood cells, computer-coloured red

Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukaemia drugs

09 Feb 2015

The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments for leukaemia and...

Scientists demonstrate potential new treatment for most common form of infant leukaemia

03 Oct 2011

New drug could treat mixed-lineage leukaemia (MLL).

Understanding how cancer cells grow

04 Jan 2010

Cambridge scientists are asking what role stem cells play in how cancer develops, spreads and relapses.

Watching cancer cells eat, breathe and die

04 Jan 2010

Cancer cells can now be viewed as never before, thanks to cutting-edge imaging tools being developed in Cambridge.

Beacons of life and death: chromatin and cancer

01 Jan 2010

A new generation of cancer therapeutics is on the horizon thanks to fresh light being shed on how genes are switched on and off.

Campath: from innovation to impact

01 Aug 2009

The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being used to...

New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis

01 Jan 2009

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.