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Life & Arts
Superfoods to the rescue
...metabolism and environmental factors such as pollution, UV rays and sunlight. They damage cells and lead to premature ageing and, at worst, cancer . ■Lipids: fats...
April 6, 2007
FT SeriesHow to manage stress and anxiety at work
Are you the right kind of stressed?
...stressors could profoundly reverse the ravages of chronic stress by repairing stress damage, rebuilding cells and enhancing neuroplasticity, and even fostering resilience to future stressful...
June 7, 2021
Camilla Cavendish
Covid shows that ageing is like a disease — we should treat it accordingly
...a respiratory illness. However, the decline of our bodies’ ability to repair damage to cells and tissues may not be inevitable. Since the early 1980s...
January 22, 2021
Science
Editing of human gene is morally permissible, says ethics study
...in Nature Biotechnology suggested that Crispr gene editing can cause greater genetic damage in cells than scientists had appreciated previously. The Nuffield report also emphasised...
July 16, 2018
Disease control and prevention
Prevention: Cruel hand of fate still has a role to play
...Health Organisation. Tobacco smoke contains 70 cancer-causing chemicals. These carcinogens can damage important genes, making cells grow and multiply out of control. Both the...
September 27, 2012
FT Magazine
Why did the mammoth become extinct?
...downside of senescence is that affected cells can produce biochemical factors that damage other cells. The immune system tries to sweep out these dysfunctional cells...
November 11, 2011
Life & Arts
Stem cell trial offers heart hope
...cell treatment into the artery during the same operation will reduce that damage. The cells do not remain in the body for more than a...
September 16, 2011
Crossed lines
...influence cancer risk. Nor is the microwave radiation likely to cause direct damage to cells. Researchers at the UK Health Protection Agency recently knocked down...
December 7, 2009
HTSI
How to keep your summer glow
...35), with marine collagen and astaxanthin, an antioxidant in algae that protects cells from damage. “The ‘skinside out’ approach has the advantage of being great...
August 24, 2022
Medical science
AstraZeneca-Daiichi drug sharply raises breast cancer survival rate, trial shows
...that is designed to deliver a payload of chemotherapy to shrink cancer cells while limiting the damage to healthy cells. The treatment has already been...
June 5, 2022
Anjana Ahuja
Hasty approval for Alzheimer’s drug offers a cautionary tale
...cells called microglia; one theory is that Alzheimer’s develops when these cells malfunction and cause inflammation and damage to brain cells. Given that the...
April 17, 2022
LexPharmaceuticals sector
Prostate cancer drugs: precisely done Premium content
...constantly fix damage to DNA. It inhibits the protein that mends DNA damage in cancer cells. It is already approved to treat ovarian, breast and...
May 20, 2020
Pharmaceuticals sector
AstraZeneca in $6.9bn cancer deal with Daiichi Sankyo
...cancer cells. Trastuzumab deruxtecan is designed to deliver chemotherapy selectively to cancer cells while reducing damage to healthy cells. In 2017, the US Food and...
March 29, 2019
Special ReportNeglected Tropical Diseases
Chagas disease: The Brazilian forest bites back
...decades. In a third of chronic cases, the parasite will cause severe damage to the cells of these organs over time, resulting in tissue swelling...
April 18, 2017
UK business & economy
Ovarian cancer drug proves effective among prostate patients
...to get started, olaparib further disrupts the repair mechanism — causing so much damage that tumour cells can no longer survive, said Joaquin Maleo, lead author...
October 28, 2015
Special Report
Biotechnology companies hunting for the keys to immortality
...those who have not. “The spleen sends inflammatory cells that cause secondary damage,” says Kolbert. “Athersys has shown that if you administer allogeneic stem cells...
March 27, 2014
UK companies
AstraZeneca strikes deal with UK’s Immunocore
...ImmTAC biological drugs can be directed to target and destroy only cancerous cells, avoiding damage to healthy cells. Under their agreement, Immunocore will work with...
January 8, 2014
Nobel prizes
Nobel awarded for discovery of how cells fix DNA damage
...tumour cells to mutate rapidly and evolve resistance to chemotherapy. But tumour cells still need some repair function; otherwise they accumulate too much damage and...
October 7, 2015
LexPharmaceuticals sector
Breast cancer: precision drugs make inroads against stubborn tumours Premium content
...marketing approval for Lynparza, a so-called Parp inhibitor. This stops cancer cells from repairing damage to their DNA. Lynparza became the first medicine targeting...
April 6, 2022
Special ReportFT Health: Regenerative Medicine
Gene therapy offers new vision to battle blindness
...a missing protein that allows waste products to build up and eventually damage or kill retinal cells. The effect is to cause tunnel vision, which...
December 9, 2019
InterviewDementia
‘I will never retire’: working life with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis
...PCA. It is a rare type of Alzheimer’s disease caused by damage to the brain cells at the back of the brain responsible for...
March 23, 2018
UK companies
Investors back £100m plan for UK proton-beam cancer centres
...the growing demand from patients because of its potential to destroy cancer cells with less damage to surrounding tissue and organs than traditional radiotherapy. Jeremy...
April 3, 2015
Pharmaceuticals sector
Aspirin a day reduces cancer death risk
...added. Aspirin probably helps to prevent cancer by enhancing the ability of cells to repair damage to DNA, said Prof Elwood. Although Bayer retains an...
December 7, 2010
ReviewFT Magazine
The Family that Couldn’t Sleep
...however, it interferes with the formation of other proteins and wreaks terrible damage on the body’s cells. To probe this enigma, the journalist D...
December 1, 2007
Patti Waldmeir
Brave new risks of nanotechnology
...content. Some research suggests that nano-ingredients commonly used in sunscreen can damage the DNA of cells, or the lungs of animals when inhaled. No...
September 18, 2007

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